Bath-built ships the USS Spruance and the USS Stockdale fended off attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebel fighters in the Red Sea.

Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted two U.S. Navy warships with multiple drones and missiles as they were traveling through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, but the attacks were not successful, the Defense Department said Tuesday.

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.

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,