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January 23, 2025

Trump Redesignates Yemen's Houthis as Foreign Terrorist Organization
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President Trump has redesignated Yemen's Houthi movement as a terrorist
organization. The move reverses Biden's removal of the terrorist label
in February 2021 and reinstates the label first imposed by Trump's
then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as the first Trump administration
was preparing to leave office. Houthi fighters have attacked cargo ships
in the Red Sea and fired projectiles at Israel amid Israel's war on
Gaza. As in 2021, aid groups warn the U.S. terrorist designation could
increase the humanitarian crises of hunger and illness in Yemen.


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