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Houthis fighters in Yemen, August 2009. There is a difference between the al-Houthi family [116]: 102 and the Houthi movement. The movement was called by their opponents and foreign media "Houthis". The name came from the surname of the early leader of the movement, Hussein al-Houthi, who died in 2004. [152]
Issa al-Laith was born in 1985 in Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia, to a Shiite Zaidi family from the Razih district of Saada Governorate, Yemen. [1] Issa grew up in Saada governorate, where he completed his Quranic and secular education. [1] He is a member of the Houthi movement and is married and the father of four children. [1]
Al-Houthi was born in Saada Governorate, Yemen Arab Republic, into the Houthi tribe on 22 May 1979. [2] [3] He is a Zaydi Shia Muslim.His father, Badreddin al-Houthi, was a religious scholar of Yemen's minority Zaydi sect. Abdul-Malik is the youngest among his eight brothers. [4]
In the late 1990s, the Houthi family in far north Yemen set up a religious revival movement for the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam, which had once ruled Yemen but whose northern heartland had became ...
Yemen's Houthis have joined the Israel-Hamas war raging more than 1,000 miles from their seat of power in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, declaring on Oct. 31 they had fired drones and missiles at ...
The United States and Britain launched strikes from the air and sea against Houthi military targets in Yemen in response to the movement's attacks on ships in the Red Sea, a dramatic regional ...
Al-Houthi (Arabic: الحوثي) is the tribal surname of Houthi tribe and it is the surname of four brothers who have or are leading the Zaidi Shia insurgency in Yemen and whose followers are referred to as the Houthis. Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (born 1979) Badreddin al-Houthi (1926–2010) Hussein al-Houthi (1959–2004) Mohammed al-Houthi (born ...
There is circumstantial evidence pointing to an informal relationship between Iran and the Houthis during the 1990s, [1] as members of the al-Houthi family, Badr al-Din al-Houthi, and his sons, Hussein al-Houthi and Abdul Malik al-Houthi received religious training in the Iranian Islamic seminary in al-Qom.