Two American officials said, yesterday, Wednesday, that the Houthi group shot down an American MQ-9 military drone.

The two American officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added that the drone was shot down off the coast of Yemen. They did not say whether the plane was shot down in international airspace.

The military spokesman for the Houthi group said in a statement that they shot down the drone in the air over Yemeni territorial waters.

For his part, a US defense official told CNN that the Iran-backed Houthis shot down an American drone off the coast of Yemen.

The official added that the MQ-9 Reaper drone was operating in international airspace and over international waters when it was shot down, and added that the US Central Command is investigating the incident.

About a week ago, the Houthi group announced more than once that it had launched large batches of ballistic and winged missiles and a large number of drones “at various targets of the Israeli enemy in the occupied territories.”