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SvennoJ on 04 August 2024
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Houthis down US drone over Saada in Yemen: Report

Yemen’s Houthi group has downed a US MQ-9 drone over the country’s northern Saada province, two sources from the group told Reuters news agency.

The attack would be the first to be claimed by the Iran-aligned group since Israel carried out an air strike targeting the port of Hodeidah, considered an economic lifeline of Yemen.

Houthis display downed US-made drone with partly damaged missiles

Houthi fighters have released a video of the remains of the US-made MQ-9 Reaper attack and reconnaissance drone that they claimed was downed while engaged in “hostile activity” over Yemen’s capital Sanaa.

The fighter, in the video, notes how petrol is dripping from the destroyed drone and shows how some of its missiles remain partly intact.



Translation: Scenes of the wreckage of the American MQ-9 plane that was shot down by Yemeni air defences with a locally made surface-to-air missile while it was carrying out hostile operations in the airspace of Saada Governorate 04-08-2024.


Houthis claim attack on cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree says that the Yemeni group hit the Groton – a Liberia-flagged cargo ship – in the Gulf of Aden “with a number of ballistic missiles”.

Late on Saturday, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported that an unnamed cargo ship was attacked twice off Yemen’s coast, with at least one missile hitting the ship.

Saree also confirmed reports that the group has downed a US-made MQ-9 Reaper attack and surveillance drone, marking the seventh such drone shot down since the start of the war on Gaza.