The State Department announced Wednesday it is redesignating the Houthis—a militant organization based in Yemen—as a terrorist group, almost three years after the Biden Administration removed the label, and months after the group began attacking commercial vessels in busy Red Sea shipping lanes.
Elliott Abrams, senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations joins Brittany Lewis on "Forbes Newsroom" to explain who the Houthis are, the escalation in the Red Sea, the United States' response, and more.
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