It wasn't immediately clear what brought down the drone, but the U.S. military's Central Command acknowledged seeing “reports” of the aircraft being downed in a desert region of Yemen's central Marib province. It marked potentially the third such downing this month alone.Images published online and analyzed by The Associated Press showed the MQ-9 on its belly in the barren desert, its tail assembly disconnected from their rest of its body.
Located 120 kilometers east of Sanaa, Marib sits on the edge of the Arabian Peninsula’s Empty Quarter Desert at the foot of the Sarawat Mountains running along the Red Sea. The province has seen U.S. drones previously brought down there, in part becauseSince Yemen’s civil war started in 2014, when the Houthis seized most of the country’s north and its capital of Sanaa, the U.S. military has lost at least five drones to the rebels.
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