Canada lists Houthi militant group as a terrorist entity – National [Video]

Canada has added the Houthi militant group to its list of terrorist entities, the government announced Monday.

The Iran-backed group, officially known as Ansarallah, has operated in Yemen since the early 2000s and has contributed to unrest in the Middle East by attacking multiple commercial and naval vessels in the Red Sea for over a year.

Those attacks began in November 2023 to protest Israel’s military offensive in Gaza following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, which is also backed by Iran.

Canada supported British and American strikes against Houthi targets earlier this year in response to the Red Sea attacks.

“The terrorist acts perpetrated by Ansarallah in the Red Sea threaten civilian lives and global supply chains, and we stand with the United States in using every tool at our disposal to hold this group and (its) backers to account,” Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters in Ottawa.

The U.S. listed Ansarallah as …