US says Houthi military equipment destroyed in strikes on Yemen, Red Sea
The US Army’s Central Command (CENTCOM) has said that in the past 24 hours, its forces “successfully destroyed two Iranian-backed Houthi missile systems and one support vehicle in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen”.
CENTCOM forces also “successfully destroyed one Houthi unmanned aerial vehicle over the Red Sea”, it said in a statement on X.
These actions were taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure, it added.
The Houthis continue to carry out attacks on commercial and military vessels in the waters surrounding Yemen, in what they say are sympathy strikes with Palestinians in Gaza.
Houthis claim they shot down US drone over Yemen
The Yemeni-rebel group has downed a US MQ-9 drone in Saada province, the group’s military spokesperson Yahya Saree has announced days after another military drone was downed over Yemen.
This is one of several drones of this type to be shot down since the start of the war on Gaza, he said. Since last November, the Houthis have been attacking Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea as an act of solidarity with Palestinians being killed in Gaza. The Yemeni group also started attacking ships linked to the US and the UK after they launched a military campaign in January to end the Houthis’ assaults on shipping lanes in the region.
Houthi-linked media claim US-UK air attack killed two in Yemen’s Taiz
At least two people have been killed and five others injured in a UK-US air attack on a school in al-Jund in the southwestern Yemeni city of Taiz, according to the Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV.
