Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, a Houthi military spokesperson, claimed it was the third MQ-9 drone downed by the group in a week.

The Iran-aligned Houthi group claimed responsibility for shooting down a US MQ-9 drone over Marib governorate, Yemen, alleging it was engaged in hostile activities. This incident aligns with ongoing Houthi attacks on shipping vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden,

Sanaa: Yemen's Houthi group said on Monday it shot down another US-made MQ-9 drone over the province of Dhamar. "The drone was shot down by a locally made surface-to-air rocket," Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a statement aired by the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV.

Yemen's Houthi rebels announced Monday that they shot down another American-made MQ-9 Reaper drone, with a video circulating online showing what appeared to be a surface-to-air missile strike and flaming wreckage strewn across the ground.

Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed on Sunday that they successfully shot down a U.S.-made MQ-9 Reaper drone over the country's contested Marib province. This incident marks another escalation in the ongoing conflict in Yemen,

A US MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed near Yemen, the Pentagon said Tuesday, after Iran-backed Huthi rebels claimed to have downed several of the aircraft in recent days.

Soon after war broke out in October between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group designated a terrorist organization by the US and European Union, the Houthi rebels who control northwestern Yemen joined in.