Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal group chat with other national security officials to discuss plans for airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen will be investigated, the Pentagon’s acting inspector general announced Thursday.

U.S. officials seek to curb the militants’ attacks on ships in the Red Sea, but the group was not deterred by strikes in the Biden era and won’t be beaten by air power alone, experts say.

This is a serious issue. If any junior analyst in the U.S. government acted the way Waltz or Hegseth did, they would have been fired immediately. Sharing war plans outside U.S. government systems is the kind of offense that is almost too stupid to commit. And just reading that a journalist was invited to the chat makes one’s IQ score drop.

Donald Trump has called for attacks on US ships by Yemen's Houthis to stop, threatening grave consequences for them and their Iranian sponsors

Houthi rebels said U.S. airstrikes hit Yemen’s capital overnight and into early Monday morning, killing at least three people. Strikes in Sana’a reportedly killed one person, with the

President Donald Trump is making his clearest commitment to not fire anyone over an embarrassing accidental leak of his administration’s plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen.