The Yemeni Houthis group claimed, on Thursday, to have shot down a US drone in western Yemen and attacked US Navy ships in the Red Sea, as Washington escalated its air strikes on the country, Anadolu Agency reports.
A Houthi statement said that a surface-to-air missile downed an MQ-9 drone as it was carrying out hostile missions over the coastal province of Al-Hudaydah.
According to the statement, the drone was the second to have been intercepted in the last 72 hours and the 17th since October 2023.
Military spokesman, Yahya Saree, also said that Houthi forces targeted the US aircraft carrier, USS Harry S. Truman and its affiliated warships in the Red Sea, using several cruise missiles and drones.
Saree said the US launched more than 36 air strikes targeting several areas across Yemen, resulting in fatalities and injuries, without giving a specific details about the targets.
According to the Houthi-run Health Ministry, at least 61 civilians have been killed and 139 others injured in US airstrikes across Yemen since 15 March 2025.
Last month, US President Donald Trump said that he had ordered decisive and powerful military action against the Houthi[s and later threatened to completely annihilate them.
The Houthi’s have targeted ships passing through the Red and Arabian seas, the Bab Al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden since November 2023 in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where more than 50,500 people have been killed in a brutal Israeli assault.
The group halted attacks when a Gaza ceasefire was declared in January between Israel and the Palestinian group, Hamas, but resumed them after renewed Israeli air strikes on Gaza last month.
Middle East Monitor / ABC Flash Point News 2025.
We are finding out that the orange conman’s claim to not start wars is another lie!
These current wars are small in comparison to the big ones over the millenniums in the southern Levant. But the weaponry of the 20th and 21st century, can cause some major destruction and death a lot quicker than those of the past.
Don the Wizard of Fail behavior since taking the second term is as scary as Adolf’s when he became a Chancellor of Germany in 1933 !!!
Don the Wizard of Fail already talking about next term for him…is he planning to become a Dictator ?
🇾🇪❌🇺🇸 Houthis attack US aircraft carrier Harry Truman – How long will the ship survive? We are confronting the American aggression and responding to its crimes against our people, declared Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, confirming missile, drone, and naval strikes on the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman in the northern Red Sea. Make no mistake, this isn’t just another skirmish. This is asymmetry at sea. While Washington spins PR about successful interceptions, the Truman battle group is now locked in a sustained war of attrition, facing waves of low-cost, high-impact Yemeni resistance backed by decades of… Read more »