Four foreign nationals who were allegedly transporting Iranian-made weapons on a vessel were intercepted by U.S. military personnel, the Department of Justice said. Two Navy SEALS died in the mission.
Washington says that it did not receive any information about an attack by the Houthi movement on a US ship in the Gulf of Aden, AP reported on Monday, citing a defense official.
Yemen's Houthi rebels said they attacked a U.S. Navy mobile base at sea Monday without offering evidence, something immediately rejected by an American defense official. Houthi military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree claimed the group fired a missile at the USS Lewis B. Puller in the Gulf of Aden. The Puller, which serves as a floating landing base, had been earlier stationed in the Arabian Sea as part of American efforts to curtail Houthi attacks on commercial shipping through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
A U.S. defense official denied an unsubstantiated claim from Yemen’s Houthi rebels early Monday that the group attacked a mobile U.S. Navy landing base in the Gulf of Aden. Speaking on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press, a U.S. defense official said there was no reported attack on the USS Lewis B. Puller, as…