The US military said on Sunday it had engaged five unmanned drones over the Red Sea that "presented an imminent threat to US, coalition, and merchant vessels in the region." The US Central Command did not say in the statement if the drones were destroyed. More details on this story are awaited. Meanwhile, Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday claimed shooting down another of the US military’s MQ-9 Reaper drones, airing footage of parts that corresponded to known pieces of the unmanned aircraft. The Houthis said they shot down the Predator with a surface-to-air missile, part of a renewed series of assaults this week by the rebels after a relative lull in their pressure campaign over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
