The government of Yemen calls on Arab countries to classify the Houthis as a terrorist organization and dry up their sources of funding

The internationally recognized Yemeni government called on the Arab countries to classify the Houthi group as a terrorist organization, stressing the importance of strengthening Arab security cooperation to pursue the group’s members and networks, and dry up its sources of funding and supply, in a way that contributes to confronting terrorism and protecting the security and stability of the Arab countries.

The call came in a speech delivered by Major General Ahmed Al Dhaheri, a member of the Supreme Security and Military Committee and Director General of the General Department for Combating Terrorism and Organized Crime at the Yemeni Ministry of Interior, affiliated with the internationally recognized government, during the twenty-ninth Arab Conference for those responsible for combating terrorism, which opened its proceedings on Wednesday at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers in the Tunisian capital, according to a statement by the Yemeni government.

The Yemeni government stressed, according to what was stated in the speech, the importance of strengthening security cooperation between Arab countries, pursuing members of the Houthi group and its networks, and drying up its sources of funding and supply, in a way that contributes to confronting terrorism and protecting the security and stability of the Arab countries.

The conference will be held on October 14 and 15, 2026, with the participation of representatives of Arab countries, the League of Arab States, and Naif Arab University for Security Sciences, in addition to international institutions concerned with combating terrorism.

This call comes in light of the continuing fighting between the forces of the internationally recognized Yemeni government, supported by Saudi Arabia, and the Houthi group supported by Iran.

Last Saturday, a Houthi attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh resulted in 13 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

The Saudi Civil Aviation Authority also announced that an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, last Sunday, resulted in the death of a Pakistani resident and the injury of 11 people, in addition to causing material damage.