### [2025-03-4](/feed/2025/03/4/index.md)

##### Red Sea crisis
# The Houthis claim to have shot down down an American MQ-9 UAV, stating that it wa conducting “hostile missions" over Al Hudaydah. The United States Air Force later confirms a loss of contact with the drone. 




### Sources:

1. [Al Arabiya](https://english.alarabiya.net/News/united-states/2025/03/05/us-says-it-lost-contact-with-mq-9-near-yemen-after-houthis-claim-to-have-shot-it-down)

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