A tanker crosses the Gulf of Suez towards the Red Sea before entering the Suez Canal, in El Ain El Sokhna in Suez, Egypt, Sept. 25, 2020. (Credit: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo/Reuters)
US Navy ships and aircraft shot down 15 uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) fired by Yemen's Houthis in the Red Sea area early on Saturday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said.
The military was responding to a large-scale attack by "Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists" launched into the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden between 4 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. (1300-1530 GMT), CENTCOM said in a post on X.
The UAVs were determined to present "an imminent threat to merchant vessels, US Navy, and coalition ships in the region," it said.
US Navy ships and aircraft shot
down 15 uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) fired by Yemen's Houthis
in the Red Sea area early on Saturday, US Central Command
(CENTCOM) said.
The military was responding to a large-scale attack by
"Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists" launched into the Red Sea and
Gulf of Aden between 4 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. (1300-1530 GMT),
CENTCOM said...
down 15 uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) fired by Yemen's Houthis
in the Red Sea area early on Saturday, US Central Command
(CENTCOM) said.
The military was responding to a large-scale attack by
"Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists" launched into the Red Sea and
Gulf of Aden between 4 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. (1300-1530 GMT),
CENTCOM said...