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The U.S. has designated Houthis as terrorists once again
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The U.S. is once again describing the Houthis in Yemen as a terrorist group, and is planning to impose sanctions within the next month unless the Houthis stop attacking ships in the Red Sea.
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The move comes as the Houthis have launched dozens of attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea. The group says it has attacked the ships in response to Israel's military operations in Gaza in the aftermath of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
The Biden administration is expected to soon announce plans to redesignate Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as specially designated global terrorists, according to two people familiar with the White House decision and a U.S. official.
Officials said they would design the financial penalties to minimize harm to Yemen's 32 million people, who are among the world's poorest and hungriest after years of war.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Wednesday put Yemen’s Houthis rebels back on its list of specially designated global terrorists, piling financial sanctions on
WASHINGTON – A terrorist by any other name… After two months of Houthi attacks on merchant vessels in the Red Sea, the White House is finally re-designating the Yemen-based, Iran-backed group…
Well, it took a direct missile attack on an American cargo ship to make it happen, but Joe Biden will reportedly add the Houthi militants in Yemen back to the designated list of terrorists at long las...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Wednesday put Yemen’s Houthis rebels back on its list of specially designated global terrorists, piling financial sanctions on top of American military strikes in the Biden administration’s latest attempt to stop the militants’ attacks on global shipping.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Wednesday put Yemen’s Houthis rebels back on its list of specially designated global terrorists, piling financial sanctions on top of American military strikes i
Secretary of State Antony Blinken delisted the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization in February 2021 as the administration sought to make it easier to get humanitarian aid into Yemen.
Houthi rebels say they struck the US-owned Genco Picardy bulk carrier with a drone in the Gulf of Aden. It comes as the US redesignated the militant group as a terrorist organization.
The United States put Yemen's Houthi rebels back on its list of specially designated global terrorists on Wednesday. The designation is part of an effort to the militants' attacks on global shipping.
The designation is in response to continued attacks on Red Sea shipping, but provides leeway for continued humanitarian assistance to civil war-torn Yemen.
The Biden administration stopped short of branding the Houthis with the more severe Foreign Terrorist Organization label, which aid agencies warned would hinder their life-saving work in Yemen.
The United States on Wednesday designated Houthi rebels in Yemen as a terrorist organization for their ongoing targeting of shipping vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
The move to pile financial sanctions on top of U.S. military strikes is the Biden administration's latest attempt to stop the militants' attacks on global shipping.
The Biden administration has moved to put the Iran-backed Houthi group back on the list of "global terrorists." The Houthi have launched dozens of attacks on vessels in the Red Sea.
The Biden administration is expected to soon announce plans to redesignate Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as specially designated global terrorists.
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