WASHINGTON: The Biden administration is expected to announce plans to re-designate Yemen’s Houthi rebels as specially designated global terrorists, a US official told media.
The US military has carried out a series of anti-ship ballistic missile strikes in Yemen in a Houthi-controlled part of the country in response to attacks by the rebel group that have disrupted shipping in the Red Sea.
Iran-allied Houthi militias have threatened to expand their attacks on US ships in response to US and British strikes on their positions in Yemen.
US President Joe Biden on Friday called Yemen’s Houthi forces a “terrorist” group after US and British warplanes, ships and submarines launched dozens of air strikes on parts of Yemen overnight.
However, the Houthi military movement threatened a “strong and effective response”.
