Ship attacked off Yemen's Hodeidah port

DUBAI - A British military group monitoring the waterways in the Middle East says a ship has come under attack off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations group said the attack happened on Thursday off Hodeidah, a contested port city amid that country's yearslong civil war.

It offered no other immediate information.

The US Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A Saudi-led coalition has been at war since March 2015 against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who have long held the Yemeni capital of Sanaa as well as Hodeidah.