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Badreddin al-Houthi (Arabic: بدرالدين الحوثي; 3 November 1926 – 25 November 2010; also spelled Badr al-Din Al-Houthi) was a Yemeni politician and Zaidi Shia scholar. [7] [8] He was the father of the founder of the Houthi movement, Hussein al-Houthi, and the father of the organization's current leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.
Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi (also spelled Hussein Badr Eddin al-Houthi, or Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi; Arabic: حسين بدر الدين الحوثي; 20 August 1959 – 10 September 2004) was a Yemeni Zaidi religious, political and military leader, as well as former member of the Yemeni parliament for the Party of Truth between 1993 and 1997.
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]
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.
Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the Houthis’ secretive supreme leader, offered an overall death toll for the strikes up to that point as 40 people killed and 35 others wounded. He didn't offer a ...
On 20 March the al-Badr and al-Hashoosh mosques came under suicide attack during midday prayers, and the Islamic State quickly claimed responsibility. The blasts killed 142 Houthi worshippers and wounded more than 351, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in Yemen's history. [128]
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower may be one of the oldest aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy, but it's still fighting — despite repeated false claims by Yemen's Houthi rebels. The Houthis and social ...
JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli fighter jets struck Houthi military targets near Yemen's Hodeidah port on Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding 87, a day after a drone launched ...