The attack on the ships was the latest in months of violence in the region by the Yemen rebels, who are backed by Iran and have targeted commercial shipping as well as the U.S. naval forces deployed to the region.

The Iran-backed group launched drones, fired missiles at two US warships in an hours-long attack, the Pentagon says.

For more than a year, U.S. warships have shot down Houthi drones and missiles, but the rebels continue to menace shipping in the Red Sea.

Yemen's Huthi rebels targeted two US destroyers with drones and missiles as they transited the Bab al-Mandab Strait, but the warships defeated the attacks, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Houthi rebels used missiles and drones to attack the American aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. They also reportedly struck two American destroyers in the Red Sea, according to a military representative of the radical organization,

US Navy warships transiting the Bab al-Mandab Strait Strait intercepted drones and missiles launched by Yemen's Houthis. The response operation included the deployment of American aircraft from Abraham Lincoln,