Trump sends warning to ‘not nice’ Houthis after deadly Saudi Arabia attacks, suggests Turkey could help

WASHINGTON — President Trump is warning the Houthis against launching further deadly attacks against Saudi Arabia and suggesting that he may ask Turkey to help with the Iran-backed terror group.

Asked whether he would ask Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to hit the Houthis, Trump told a reporter: “I might do it.”

“I have a lot of respect for the president of Turkey,” Trump said Tuesday. “President Erdogan, I think, would do as I ask.”

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Smoke and flames rise from King Khalid Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said they attacked the airport, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. Social Media via REUTERS Surveillance footage shows people reacting amid smoke at the moment of an attack at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. via REUTERS Two days before, Trump said the US was weighing retaliatory attacks against the Houthis after the Yemen-based terror group fired on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, killing 12 including one American citizen.