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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]
On 30 April 2018, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) deployed more than a hundred troops with artillery and armored vehicles to the Yemeni archipelago of Socotra in the Guardafui Channel without prior coordination with the Yemeni government, causing the relations of the two countries to deteriorate.
The Houthi tribe (Arabic: قبيلة الحوثي) 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] The Houthi movement is named after the Houthi tribe. Harith al-Hamdani, one of Ali's first supporters, was from the ...
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 ...
The Houthis possess a sizable arsenal of weapons, including missiles and drones. The Yemeni rebels couldn't have done that without foreign help, according to a new UN report.
On February 14 2017, an ISIS suicide car bomb blast against at a sports club in Radaa, Al Bayda, killing three houthi fighters and wound eight people more. [33] ISIS fighters shelled the house of a tribal leader, killing a civilian and wounding another, in Bakarat, Al Qurayshiyah.
The Houthis have sharply escalated their attacks against ships as they sail toward the narrow Bab el-Mandeb Strait. No one has been reported hurt in the Houthi incidents, although the commercial ...
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.