The Biden administration in the United States informed Congress last month that the former Trump administration would de-designate the Yemeni rebel Houthis as a terrorist organization.


The Biden administration has just announced that it will stop supporting Saudi-led military attacks on the Houthi movement, a major shift in the policy of the former Trump administration over Yemen, where the civil war continues.

The U.S. State Department has officially notified NHK on the 6th that it will remove the designation of a terrorist organization for the Houthi movement, which is facing a civil war with the administration in Yemen in the Middle East. I made it.



Regarding the Houthi movement supported by Iran, the former Trump administration, which has shown a strong stance toward Iran, had just designated it as a terrorist organization last month just before the change of government.



A spokesman for the State Department said the de-designation "corresponds to the United Nations and others' indications that the last-minute designation by the former Trump administration will accelerate the world's worst humanitarian crisis."



The Biden administration has just announced that it will stop supporting Saudi Arabia-led military attacks on the Houthi movement, which is a major shift in the policy of the former Trump administration over Yemen, where the civil war continues.