Military expert Major General Mohammed Al-Samadi expected the United States, Britain and Israel to launch an intensive air campaign on Yemen, and said that these countries are determined to implement several scenarios against the Houthis.

The Washington Post quoted an American official as saying that confronting the Houthis in Yemen may require additional military and diplomatic action by countries inside and outside the Middle East.

The US military announced on Tuesday that it carried out multiple precision strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi targets in Sanaa and coastal locations inside Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen on December 30 and 31.

The US State Department delegation met with the commander-in-chief of the new administration in Syria, Ahmad al-Sharaa, in a meeting described as “positive,” while the mission cancelled a press conference that was scheduled to be held “for security reasons.”

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Friday that it had killed the leader of the ISIS organization in Syria, known as "Abu Yusuf," in a precision strike.

Ending attacks on shipping in the Red Sea requires the United States to impose greater consequences on the Houthis in Yemen and their sponsors in Tehran, American experts said.