President Donald Trump issued an executive order initiating a process to redesignate the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels as a foreign terrorist organization.

President Trump issued an executive order Wednesday re-designating the Houthis as a foreign terror organization after the Biden administration scrapped the label in February 2021.

When former president Joe Biden took over from Trump in 2021, he removed the designation that Trump had signed near the end of his first term

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday re-designated Yemen's Houthi movement, known formally as Ansar Allah, as a "foreign terrorist organization", the White House said. The move will impose harsher

The Houthis said this week that they will stop attacking US and UK vessels in the Red Sea area in response to the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement.

President Trump on Wednesday directed his administration to re-list the Houthis in Yemen as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), an effort to crack down on the Iranian-backed militant group.

President Trump announced on Wednesday that he is once again designating the Houthi rebels in Yemen as a terrorist organization. Why it matters: Trump's decision reverses a decision by then-President Biden in 2021 to remove the terrorist designation from the Houthis.