Dubai | A possible attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Monday targeted a ship further away from nearly all the previous assaults they have launched in the Gulf of Aden, officials said, potentially part of a widening escalation by the group.

The attack comes as the US has sent the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower back home after an eight-month deployment in which it led the American response to the Houthi assaults.

AP