As their violent attacks on maritime commerce continue, the Houthi rebels in Yemen fired a missile on Friday at a US warship that was cruising the Gulf of Aden, Middle East causing it to shoot down the projectile. They also hit a British vessel.
Houthi missile fire on Friday night ignited another commercial vessel, signaling a further uptick in the largest naval conflict the US Navy has witnessed in the Middle East in decades. The strike targeted the US warship, the destroyer USS Carney.
Since the rebels started attacking ships in October, the Carney attack marks the first time the Houthis have specifically targeted a US warship, a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because no permission had been granted to talk about the incident.
Later on Friday, a ship in the Gulf of Aden was confirmed to have been hit by a missile and was on fire by the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Operations, which is in charge of managing the waterways in the Middle East.
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