The US Ambassador to Yemen, Stephen Fagin, confirmed on Friday that the decision to reclassify the Houthis as a terrorist group will take effect at the end of next week.

The American ambassador said in a brief statement published by the American Embassy in Yemen on the “X” platform: “The classification of the Houthis as a “terrorist group” will come into effect at the end of next week if the militia does not stop its attacks on ships.

On January 17, the United States took a decision to classify the group as a terrorist organization, with the decision to enter into force thirty days after its issuance.

The latest decision came nearly three years after the Biden White House removed the Houthis' FTO designations, which the Trump administration had put in place in its final weeks.

The deadline is supposed to end on February 16. In addition, Washington and London issued decisions to impose sanctions on a number of the group’s leaders, against the backdrop of the attacks it launched against commercial ships and maritime navigation in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab.

On February 8, 54 members of the US Congress called for the Houthis to be reclassified as a terrorist organization, and not as global terrorists as stipulated in last month’s resolution.