The sanctions come a day after the State Department announced it had officially implemented the designation of the Houthi movement as a "foreign terrorist organization".
Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired surface-to-air missiles at a US fighter jet over the Red Sea in the first attack of its kind, Fox News reported Saturday.
A U.S. military MQ-9 Reaper drone disappeared over the Red Sea the same day Houthi militants in Yemen claimed to have shot one down. U.S. Central Command lost contact with the drone Monday.
U.S. Treasury imposed new sanctions on seven leading Houthi members after they were designated a terrorist group
For the first time, Yemen’s Ansarallah fired a surface-to-air missile at a US F-16 over the Red Sea, expanding its operations.