Houthi ballistic missile fired at Danish container ship near Bab el Mandeb strait

The U.S. military accused the Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen of having fired a ballistic missile at a container ship in the Red Sea Thursday in the latest provocation that is raising tensions in the region. "Midday Dec. 14 (Sanaa time), a ballistic missile was fired from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen toward the international shipping lane north of the Bab-el-Mandeb,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement. The Bab-el-Mandeb strait is the narrow body of water separating Yemen from the northeast coast of Africa that leads into the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.