The US Treasury Department has issued a license authorizing transactions until February 26 involving Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement, which was earlier designated by the Trump administration as a foreign terrorist organization.

A member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council Yemen says US designation of the Ansarullah movement is a source of pride for the Yemeni nation.

The Yemeni foreign minister says former US president Donald Trump was likely paid to designate the Houthi Ansarullah movement as a foreign terrorist organization.

A number of senior Yemeni officials condemn the US blacklisting of Ansarullah, saying the move shows Washington is not after peace in Yemen.

The spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarullah movement says the blacklisting of the group means it has been successfully in standing against US interests.

The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement slams the outgoing US administration’s decision to designate Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah movement as a foreign “terrorist” group.

A leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement says the group reserves the right to respond to any US move to designate the group as terrorist.

In June 2017 Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt severed diplomatic, trade, and travel ties with Qatar, a tiny, yet gas-rich country in the Persian Gulf. The anti-Qatar quartet accused Doha of funding terrorism and fostering instability in the region.

Saudi warplanes hit targets in the Yemeni capital Sana’a following attacks in the southern port city of Aden.

The UN and international aid agencies warn the US against blacklisting Yemeni popular Ansarullah movement, stressing the move would exacerbate the already dire humanitarian crisis in war-torn Yemen.