DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen's capital killed at least eight people overnight, the Houthi rebels said Monday, as the American military acknowledged carrying out over 800 individual strikes in their monthlong campaign.

The Trump administration launched a series of deadly airstrikes on a major oil port at Ras Isa, Yemen, in which scores of people were killed, including port workers, civilians and aid workers, who were responding to the initial blast and were then hit with a Pentagon directed “double-tap.