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Houthis designated as foreign terrorist organization, Rubio says
The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen have been designated as a foreign terrorist organization, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday, fulfilling one of President Donald Trump’s first promises upon taking office.
Rubio said the U.S. «will not tolerate» any country that does business with «terrorist organizations like the Houthis.»
«Today’s action taken by the State Department demonstrates the Trump Administration’s commitment to protecting our national security interests, the safety of the American people, and the security of the United States,» Rubio said in the statement. «Terrorist designations play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective way to curtail support for terrorist activities.»
The Houthis have carried out more than 100 attacks on vessels in the Red Sea following the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. The U.S. military has defended its warships patrolling the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait, escorting and preventing attacks on commercial ships by the Houthis.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday that the Iran-backed Houthis are being designated as a foreign terrorist organization. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)
Trump re-designated Yemen’s Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization in January, writing in an executive order that «the Houthis’ activities threaten the security of American civilians and personnel in the Middle East, the safety of our closest regional partners, and the stability of global maritime trade.»
Trump had added the Houthis to the foreign terrorist organization list during his first term, but President Joe Biden reversed the designation within one month of taking office in 2021 as his administration sought to make it easier to get humanitarian aid into Yemen.
Houthi rebel fighters march during a rally of support for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and against the U.S. strikes on Yemen outside Sanaa on Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo, File)
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After Trump suggested removing Palestinian from Gaza last month, the Houthis’ leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, said in a televised speech that the group would take military action against the U.S. and Israel.
There has been a policy debate at the highest levels of the U.S. military about what is the best way to counter the Houthis.
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Some suggest a more traditional counterterrorism approach to the Houthis, with persistent strikes targeting the individuals planning and carrying out the ongoing attacks, while others want a more defensive approach that goes after Houthi infrastructure and weapons-storage facilities.
Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin contributed to this report.
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Car ramming in Mannheim, Germany, leaves 2 dead, multiple injured: reports
A suspect rammed a car into a crowd of people in Mannheim, Germany on Monday, killing two people and injuring multiple others, reports say.
Police said the suspect is in custody, but would not immediately characterize the incident as an attack. The driver is a 40-year-old German from the nearby state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Thomas Strobl, the state interior minister of Baden-Württemberg, where Mannheim is based, told German news agency dpa.
«We mourn with the relatives of the victims of a senseless act of violence and fear for those injured. We cannot accept this,» German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on X.
Local media reported that a car drove at a high rate of speed into the crowd in Mannheim’s Paradeplatz square, according to Reuters. Locals were urged to avoid the downtown area in Mannheim due to police activity.
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Police officers stand next to a damaged vehicle in the city center of Mannheim, Germany, on Monday March 3. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser canceled her participation in the carnival street parade in Cologne due to the events in Mannheim.
«The focus is now on saving lives, treating the injured and the initial investigations by the authorities in Mannheim,» an interior ministry spokesperson told the dpa news agency.
Mannheim University Hospital said they were treating three people from the crash, two adults and a child, dpa reported.
The incident happened weeks after a car ramming attack in Munich left a 2-year-old girl and her mother dead.
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Debris is seen scattered on the streets of Mannehim, Germany, following the reported car ramming attack on Monday, March 3. (Dieter Leder/dpa via AP)
That attack happened a day before Vice President JD Vance and others gathered in Munich for the Munich Security Conference.
German prosecutors later said the suspect in the Munich incident, a 24-year-old Afghan, appeared to have been motivated by Islamic extremism.
Last year, six people also were killed and more than 200 injured when a car slammed into a Christmas market in eastern Germany city of Magdeburg.
Emergency services and police stand at Paradeplatz in Mannheim, Germany, following the incident on Monday March 3. (René Priebe/dpa via AP)
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The suspect, who was arrested, was a 50-year-old doctor originally from Saudi Arabia who had expressed anti-Muslim views and support for the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative For Germany party, the AP reported.
Fox News’ Thomas Ferraro and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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