Yemeni Houthis strike USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier

Members of Yemen’s rebel Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement delivered a strike on the Carl Vinson aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said, Report informs via TASS.

"The armed forces of Yemen conducted a drone operation in the Arab Sea against US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson and other warships," he told the Houthi-owned Al Masirah TV.

After the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Gaza Strip in 2023, the Houthis warned that they would launch strikes on Israeli territory while barring ships associated with the Jewish state from passing through the waters of the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait until Israel ceased its military operation against Palestinian group Hamas in the embattled enclave. The Houthis have attacked dozens of civilian vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.