The Houthi militant group in Yemen made the bold claim that it drove away the United States Navy after the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) departed from the Middle East. CVN-72, which spent nearly three months in the region, was the latest in a series of U.S. Navy flattops to be sent to maintain a presence to deter increased aggression from Iran and its regional proxies.

On Saturday, USS Abraham Lincoln arrived at Port Klang, Malaysia for the second scheduled port call on its 2024 deployment. This left the U.S. without a carrier in the region for the first time in more than a year, apart from a brief period in June, and that allowed the Houthis to declare victory.

"Yemen has challenged America with its warships and fleets at sea after it declared aggression against us, and Yemen has stood firm and never retreated from its position," Sayyed al-Houthi told the Lebanese-based pan-Arabist........

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