Sanaa, March 18 -- Yemen's Houthi group has targeted a U.S. aircraft carrier in the northern Red Sea for the third time in the past 48 hours, as the U.S. military launched fresh airstrikes on the Houthi-held capital Sanaa, said the group on Tuesday.

"We targeted the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier in the northern Red Sea with two cruise missiles and two drones," Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a statement aired by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV.

He also said that his group carried out another attack by launching "a cruise missile and four drones at an American destroyer" in the Red Sea.

"We affirm that we will not stop targeting all hostile targets in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea until the aggression against our country stop...