Note: This page includes Executive Orders and Presidential Actions that were signed on or before January 24, 2025. It will be updated in the coming days, and kept updated to the best of my ability as time goes on
Summary
- Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, shall be considered for designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
Executive Order: “Designation of Ansar Allah as a Foreign Terrorist Organization”
- Orders that Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, shall be considered for designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
- Zaydi Shia Islamist political and military organization
- Came about in the 1990s
- Central player in the civil war in Yemen
- Has drawn international condemnation for human rights abuses, targeting civilians and using child soldiers.
- Alleged support from Iran, Russian and N Korea
- States that, following any designation of Ansar Allah as a foreign terrorist organization, the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) must conduct a review of the United Nations partners, nongovernmental organizations, and contractors through which USAID works in Yemen, and terminate projects, grants, or contracts for anyone with a relationship with USAID that has:
- made payments to members of, or governmental entities controlled by, Ansar Allah
- criticized international efforts to counter Ansar Allah