Houthis Fire Cruise Missile at U.S. Warship Despite Strikes

The Iran-backed Houthi rebels fired a cruise missile at an American warship on Sunday in apparent retaliation for U.S. airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen last week.

The missile was shot down by a fighter jet, resulting in no injuries, according to a U.S. Central Command post on Monday. It was fired towards the USS Laboon, a U.S. Navy destroyer, that was in the southern Red Sea over the weekend.

On Monday, the U.S. military announced that an American-owned cargo ship had been hit by another missile in the Gulf of Aden.

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