The US military on Tuesday said it has shot down 12 attack drones and five missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the south of the Red Sea. F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets from a US aircraft carrier group were deployed. No ships in the area were damaged and no casualties were reported, the US Regional Command for the Middle East (Centcom) said on Tuesday on the X platform, formerly Twitter. The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, who control large parts of Yemen had fired kamikaze drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles over a period of about 10 hours on Tuesday, Cent…