Trump's fight against the Houthis, by the numbers

President Trump on Tuesday said he would stop bombing Houthi rebels in Yemen because the group, armed by Iran, no longer wants to fight.Why it matters: This tenuous deal follows a beefed up U.S. presence in the greater Middle East and months of missile-and-drone exchanges that chewed through coveted stateside stockpiles.Here are some key stats:More than 1,000 targets have been hit since mid-March, when Operation Rough Rider kicked off, according to the Pentagon.Central Command said it's killed "hundreds of Houthi fighters and numerous Houthi leaders," including drone experts. Al Jazeera reported at least 250 dead.The initial weeks of the operation cost nearly $1 billion, according to CNN.The Houthis downed several MQ-9 Reaper drones, costing millions of dollars each.One F/A-18E Super Hornet being towed on the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier fell overboard. One sailor was injured.There has been only a single public Pentagon briefing on the campaign. That happened more than a month ago.The bottom line: "Getting to this contentious truce did not come cheap," Behnam Ben Taleblu, an expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Axios."By forcing the other side to expend more resources, and even political capital, on defense, Tehran has proved that the Houthis were a low-cost but high-return on investment terror option for them starting a decade ago."Go deeper: U.S. slashing military presence in Syria

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