The US’s Central Command (Centcom) has issued a statement with details of the assaults, saying it destroyed five Houthi drones, one drone ship and a missile in three different locations — Yemen, the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.

Centcom said its forces, in the past 24 hours, destroyed three Houthi drones launched over the Gulf of Aden and one drone in rebel-controlled areas in Yemen. Additionally, US forces also destroyed one drone, one drone ship and one antiship ballistic missile in the Red Sea.