On Wednesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” U.S. Special Envoy to Yemen Timothy Lenderking defended the softer terrorist designation that the Biden administration put on the Houthis because it “gives us a little bit more flexibility to have carve-outs and licenses so that
On Wednesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” U.S. Special Envoy to Yemen Timothy Lenderking discussed the Biden administration’s decision to put a terrorist organization designation on the Houthis and defended the Biden administration’s decision to remove the terrorist organization designation from the Houthis
The Biden admin announced it was designating the Houthis as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist,” not a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
The internationally recognized Yemeni government justified recent U.S. and U.K. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, pointing to the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels’ “terrorist attacks” on commercial ships in the Red Sea, while deeming Houthi claims the attacks are in support of Palestinians as “propaganda.” Yemen also appeared to criticize the Biden administration’s previous removal of the Houthis from the Foreign Terrorist Organization list, which, it argued, “encouraged” the terror group to become a “threat to the security and stability of the entire world.”
GOP lawmakers are requesting the Biden administration provide a classified briefing concerning Iran’s “brazen activities,” including alleged plans to assassinate U.S. officials.
Rep. Mary Miller proposed a resolution which would designate a non-exhaustive list of Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
The United States should capitulate to the Iranian demand to remove the hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from its foreign terrorist organization list, according to a Foreign Policy magazine essay that admits doing so would alienate Middle East allies and that Iran can not be trusted to follow up on its promises.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) called on the State Department to designate the radical Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration would be “siding with autocrats and roiling [the] Middle East” if it joins several Islamic countries in designating the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) a terrorist organization, the New York Times (NYT) argued this week.
A top Turkish politician this week argued that the potential decision by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to list the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as a foreign terrorist organization along with the likes of al-Qaeda would “increase Islamophobia” in America and Europe.
For the first time ever, the U.S. designated part of a foreign government, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as a foreign terrorist organization, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday.
