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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]
Banu Hout (Arabic: بنو الحوت) is a Hamdanid Arab tribe that centralizes in northern Yemen.The tribe is branched from Banu Hamdan tribe. [1] [2] They are primarily headquartered in both 'Amran and Saada. [3]
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Yemenis are mainly of Arab ethnicity. [9] When the former states of North and South Yemen were established, most resident minority groups departed. [10] Yemen is still a largely tribal society. [11] In the northern, mountainous parts of the country, there are some 400 Zaidi tribes. [12] There are also hereditary caste groups in urban areas such ...
The U.S. military on Wednesday said its forces struck weapons depots used by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorist group in Yemen to target naval warships and merchant vessels in the Red Sea and the ...
The Houthis directly threatened the Jewish community in 2007, ... discussions were held in honor of the ethnic heritage of Yemenite Jews and by 2018, a revival of ...
Let us look at an ethnic map of Syria. The Alawites, Sunni Muslims and Kurds were all forced into countries whose boundaries benefit none of them. ... Yemen’s Houthis rebelled; the Kurds have ...
Eleven Yemeni employees of United Nations agencies have been detained by Yemen's Houthi rebels under unclear circumstances, authorities said Friday, as the rebels face increasing financial ...