The U.S. government is to designate Yemen’s Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization

The U.S. administration is to designate Yemen’s Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization, a move the United Nations warned could undermine peace talks and make it harder to feed Yemenis enduring the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. A leader of the Iranian-aligned group, which has been battling a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen since 2015 in a war widely seen as a proxy conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia, said it reserved the right to respond. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the move, which will include sanctions against the movement and three of its leaders, in a statement late on…