The US military says it has shot down 12 attack drones and five missiles fired by the Houthi rebels in Yemen 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 Houthis had fired kamikaze drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles over a period of about 10 hours on Tuesday, Centcom said. The Shiite rebels from Yemen had declared shortly b…