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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours, Joseph Stepansky

Biden ‘playing with fire’ by re-designating Yemen’s Houthis as ‘terrorists’

Newly recruited Houthi fighters hold up firearms during a ceremony at the end of their training in Sanaa, Yemen, on January 11 [File: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]

It was one of Joe Biden’s first major foreign policy decisions.

Less than a month after taking office in January 2021, the United States president lifted two “terrorist” designations imposed by his predecessor, Donald Trump, against Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

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