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The Houthi insurgency, [43] [44] also known as the Houthi rebellion, the Sa'dah Wars, or the Sa'dah conflict, was a military rebellion pitting Zaidi Shia Houthis (though the movement also includes Sunnis [45]) against the Yemeni military that began in Northern Yemen and has since escalated into a full-scale civil war.
The Houthi movement, [f] officially the Ansar Allah, [g] is a Zaydi Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly made up of Zaydi Shias, with their namesake leadership being drawn largely from the Houthi tribe. [94]
Houthi attacks on commercial ships in the Bab-el-Mandeb strait.. On 16 February 2021, the Biden administration removed Ansar Allah, the formal political and military organization of the Houthi movement, from the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) blacklist, [21] due to concerns that the designation would impede the delivery of humanitarian aid amid Yemen's worsening political and ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel struck multiple targets linked to the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen on Thursday, including Sanaa International Airport, and Houthi media said at least six ...
US and UK militaries have launched strikes on Yemen-based militant group which has been targeting commercial vessels and warships in the Red Sea Why are Britain and US attacking Yemen’s Iran ...
Yemen specialists say the Houthis are a political movement, a military force and a religious group. ... They have been fighting in a civil war in Yemen since 2014 against a fledgling government ...
The Houthi takeover in Yemen, also known by the Houthis as the September 21 Revolution, [7] or 2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état (by opponents), [8] was a popular revolution against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi led by the Houthis and their supporters that pushed the Yemeni government from power.
The Houthi movement controls much of Yemen after nearly a decade of war against a U.S.-backed and Saudi-led coalition. The war has shifted to a no-war, no-peace stalemate as the fighting has ...