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Houthis Launch Attack On US Cargo & Navy Ships Following Two Weeks Of Quiet<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Yemen\u2019s Iran-linked Houthis have announced new aggressive actions in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea regions, saying late Wednesday that projectiles were launched against more US and Israeli-owned commercial vessels, and that\u00a0a US warship was also targeted<\/strong>. This follows a period of relative quiet this month.<\/p>\n

Houthi military spokesman\u00a0Yahya Saree said in a video address that an\u00a0antiship ballistic missile was launched against the Maersk Yorktown cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden<\/strong>, resulting in a direct hit.<\/p>\n

The US military subsequently confirmed the fresh attack on the\u00a0“US-flagged, owned, and operated vessel with 18 US and four Greek crew members”<\/strong>; however, the statement indicated no casualties or damage. The projectile may have exploded near the ship without hitting it.<\/p>\n

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File image, Maritime Executive<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“There were no injuries or damage reported by US, coalition, or commercial ships,” US Central Command (CENTCOM)\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in the statement, without indicating whether there was any level of an actual direct strike on the ship. Commenting further, Maritime Executive\u00a0details<\/a>:<\/p>\n

They received a report from a vessel of an explosion in the water approximately 72 nautical miles southeast of the port of Djibouti. The statement only said that there had been\u00a0an explosion “at a distance,”<\/strong>\u00a0and that the crew and vessel were reported safe.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CENTCOM further described that within hours of the attack on the\u00a0Maersk Yorktown, US forces\u00a0“successfully engaged and destroyed”<\/strong>\u00a0four drones over Yemen.<\/p>\n

The government of Greece this week also said it has been engaged in fresh\u00a0counter-Houthi actions<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Greek Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday that one of the country\u2019s military ships serving in the European Union\u2019s naval mission to counter the Houthis in the\u00a0Red Sea<\/a> intercepted two drones launched towards a commercial ship from Yemen.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Houthis Launch Attack On US Cargo & Navy Ships Following Two Weeks Of Quiet Yemen\u2019s Iran-linked Houthis have announced new aggressive actions in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea regions, saying late Wednesday that projectiles were launched against more US and Israeli-owned commercial vessels, and that\u00a0a US warship was also targeted. This follows a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26602,3504,14494,827,834,4318],"class_list":["post-67686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-gulf-of-aden","tag-houthis","tag-red-sea","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67687,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67686\/revisions\/67687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}