On January 1, 2025, Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) published an article on its official website titled "As a New Year Begins: Will Yemen Turn the MQ-9 Into the Joke of American Industries?"
The article opens by claiming that early on the morning of January 1, an American MQ-9 Reaper drone "fell in the range of Yemeni air defenses" and was shot down with a locally-made surface-to-air missile above the country's Ma'rib Governorate, in the second such incident within three days.
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