What might we call this December Houthi attack, as reported by the BBC:
At least 22 people have been killed and more than 50 wounded in an attack at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, officials say. There was at least one explosion shortly after a plane carrying the war-torn country s newly formed government arrived from neighbouring Saudi Arabia. Aid workers and officials were among the casualties.
Again, this is rightly called terrorism. The main defense of the Trump administration decision to call the Houthis terrorists is that they repeatedly commit acts of terrorism. QED. And the main critique of the Biden administration’s revocation of that decision is equally simple: the Houthis have long committed, and continue to commit, acts of terror. They should be designated an FTO because they are an FTO.
As the President is taking steps to end the war in Yemen and Saudi Arabia has endorsed a negotiated settlement, the United States is deeply troubled by.
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration on Sunday warned Yemen’s Houthi rebels against ongoing attacks against civilians just 48 hours after moving to str.
US warns Yemen s Houthi militants against attacks on civilians
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Houthi rebels during a protest against the US in Sanaa in January. AP file
The Biden administration says the US is deeply troubled by continued Houthi attacks, after Saudi Arabia endorsed a negotiated settlement
The Biden administration on Sunday warned Yemen’s Houthi rebels against ongoing attacks against civilians just 48 hours after moving to strike the group from a terrorism blacklist.
The State Department called on the Iran-backed rebel group to immediately stop attacks on civilians and new military operations in Yemen. The demand came only two days after the administration notified Congress that it would remove the Houthis from its list of “foreign terrorist organisations,” a designation that comes with severe US sanctions.