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Ansarullah warns US Navy of ‘costliest war ever’ if it gets close to Yemeni waters

The Yemeni Ansarullh resistance movement has warned of the “longest” and “costliest” war in history in the event US Navy vessels approach the Arab country’s territorial waters.

“In the interest of international peace and security and the preservation of the safety of navigation in the Red Sea, the American forces must move away from our territorial waters,” the deputy foreign minister in Yemen’s National Salvation Government, tweeted on Tuesday.

Because, Hussein al-Ezzi said, any approach may mean the beginning of the longest and costliest battle in human history.

The warning came hours after the US Fifth Fleet said in a statement that more than 3,000 US military personnel had arrived in the Red Sea on board two warships.

The statement from the Bahrain-based command added that they arrived on board the USS Bataan and USS Carter Hall warships after transiting through the Suez Canal in a preannounced deployment.

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