The incident is potentially the latest downing of a U.S. spy drone as the militants continue their attacks on the Red Sea corridor.

In a dramatic escalation, Houthi missiles have successfully shot down another U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone over Yemen, marking the 12th drone downed by the Iran-backed group this month alone. The attack occurred in the skies above Yemen's al-Jawf governorate,

U.N. experts say Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been transformed from a local armed group with limited capabilities to a powerful military organization with support from Iran, Iraqi armed groups, Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants and others.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have shot down what bystanders described as an American drone, potentially the latest downing of a U.S. spy drone as the militants continue their attacks on the Red Sea corridor.