Hours after the US State Department notified the US Congress of the “Secretary’s intent to revoke” the designation of Houthis as a terrorist organization, the Yemeni Shia theocrats fired missiles into the government-held city of Marib killing three civilians and injuring three others.
A local source told the state-run news agency that a Houthi drone tried to shell the ambulances while collecting the casualties, warning that the international community’s “turn-blind-eye” approach is encouraging Houthis “to commit more such terrorist acts”.
On the peripheries of Marib, the UN-backed militia renewed its fierce ground attempts to advance, after a rare period of calm that followed Trump’s 11th-hour decision to put Houthis on the terror list.
Yemen officials and activists widely warned the US move translates into an automatic return to large scale acts of violence.