Key facts
- US President Donald Trump said Yemen's Houthi militants are "behaving very badly."
- The Houthis have escalated attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
- Houthi attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh killed 13 people and wounded over 300.
- Trump said he might ask Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to intervene and support Saudi interests.
US President Donald Trump stated that Yemen's Houthi militants are "behaving very badly" amid escalating attacks on Saudi Arabia, including strikes on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh that killed 13 people and wounded over 300. The Iran-backed Houthis, who control large parts of Yemen, have intensified their conflict with the Saudi-backed Yemeni government since the US began its war on Iran.