Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed they shot down another American-made MQ-9 Reaper drone, with video circulating online showing what appears to be a surface-to-air missile strike and flaming wreckage strewn across the ground.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that his country has not sent hypersonic missiles to Yemen's Houthi group. The president made the remarks at a press conference in Tehran, in response to a question from an Al Jazeera news network reporter who quoted political experts saying that Iran has supplied hypersonic missiles,

The group, officially known as Ansar Allah, evolved from a grassroots religious movement in the 1990s to a powerful militia with sophisticated weapons.