American fighter jets shot down a missile launched from areas of Yemen this Sunday in international waters of the Red Sea. controlled by the Shiite Houthi rebels against a military ship, according to the Central Command of USA.
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The command of the US Department of Defense specified that The incident occurred at approximately 16:45 local time in Sana’a (13:45 GMT)the capital of Yemen.
“Anti-ship missile fired from Yemen’s Houthi militant areas backed by Iran towards the USS Laboon (DDG 58), which was operating in the southern Red Sea“, detailed the Central Command on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
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He stressed that the missile was shot down near the coast of Al-Hudaydaha city in western Yemen, by American warplanes without causing damage or injuries.
Yemen’s Shia Houthi rebels had accused the United States today of bombing its positions in the port town of Al Hodeida for the third consecutive dayactions in response to insurgent attacks against commercial ships in the Red Sea.
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“American and British aggression bombed Al Lahiya, in Al Hodeida“Mohamed al Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi political bureau, said on X (formerly Twitter) after a bombing hit one of its military positions in the north of the town.
The Houthis, Hezbollah and Iraq’s pro-Iran militias are part of the informal Axis of Resistance allianceled by Iran, and which since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip has carried out actions against Israel and US military positions in the Middle East.