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The U.S. Should Reverse Its Huthi Terror Designation
The outgoing Trump administration has designated Yemen’s Huthi rebels a terrorist organisation
Proponents argue the measure will provide leverage with the Huthis, but in reality it will hurt efforts to end the war and could precipitate famine.
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The incoming Biden administration should rescind it immediately.
Against the advice of more or less everyone working in the humanitarian, economic and diplomatic fields in Yemen, and including many of its own professional staff, the…
The designation (in fact, a package of designations that named the Huthi movement both a…