DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—A possible attack by Yemen’s Houthi terrorists on Monday targeted a ship farther away from nearly all of the previous assaults they’ve launched in the Gulf of Aden, officials said, potentially part of a widening escalation by the group.
The attack comes as the United States 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. Those attacks have reduced shipping drastically through the route crucial to Asian, Middle East, and European markets in a campaign the Houthis say will continue as long as the Israel–Hamas war in the Gaza Strip rages on.
