[HIGHLIGHTS] An explosion near a ship off the southern coast of Yemen

An explosion near a commercial ship off the southern coast of Yemen. No party has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

The incident comes within a series of ongoing attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden region carried out for months by the Ansar Allah group (Houthis) The US Central Command said that its forces succeeded in intercepting and destroying a drone, while another likely fell into the Red sea, as it put it. The US is intensifying efforts to monitor and intercept Iranian weapons smuggled into Yemen.