A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on the ship in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, killed three of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel, the U.S. military said. It was the first fatal strike in a campaign of assaults by the Iranian...
The Houthis did not immediately claim the attack, but it typically takes them several hours before they acknowledge an assault. It remains unclear how the Houthis could attack subsea cables themselves. The rebels are not known to have the diving or sal...
The Houthis’ apparent downing of a US drone comes amid regular attacks by the rebel group on commercial shipping in the Red Sea and increasingly regular strikes by the US on their capabilities in Yemen, many of which have been conducted on missiles or drones that are preparing to launch. O...