Yemen's Houthis say they attacked American military cargo ship in Gulf of Aden

CAIRO (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi movement said on Monday its forces had carried out an attack against American military cargo ship Ocean Jazz in the Gulf of Aden.

"The Yemeni armed forces continue to retaliate to any American or British aggression against our country by targeting all sources of threat in the Red and Arab Sea," the Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in a statement.

(Reporting by Hatem Maher and Ahmed Tolba; Editing by Jan Harvey)