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The Houthi movement, [a] officially the Ansar Allah, [b] 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. [95]
The Houthis' role has added to the conflict's regional risks, threatening sea lanes through which much of the world's oil is shipped, and worrying states on the Red Sea as Houthi rockets and ...
Banu Houth (Arabic: بنو حوث) or the Houthi tribe (قبيلة الحوثي, qabīlat al-Ḥūthī), is a Hamdanid Arab tribe that centralizes in northern Yemen. The tribe is branched from Banu Hamdan tribe. The Houthi movement is named after the tribe. [1] [2] They are primarily headquartered in both 'Amran and Saada. [3]
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.
President Biden announced Thursday that the U.S. and U.K. conducted retaliatory strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen as tensions rise in the Red Sea. The Iran-backed rebel group has stepped ...
It has been over two weeks since the U.S. and its allies began launching retaliatory strikes against Houthi bases in Yemen following their attacks on ships in the Red Sea, which has caused major ...
The Sarkha (Arabic: الصرخة, lit. 'The scream / The collective outcry') is the political slogan of the Houthi movement, a Shia Islamist political and military organization in Yemen, that reads "God is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse be upon the Jews, Victory to Islam" on a vertical banner of Arabic text.
(The Center Square) – As unrest continues in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden with Houthi rebels targeting shipping vessels and allegedly waging a proxy war with the U.S. and Israel on behalf of ...