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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 4 April 2015, the Houthis stormed and searched the party's headquarters in ar-Rabat street in Sana'a. [4] On 5 September 2016, president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi met with the party to discuss the developments in the country, such as steps towards peace and the hardships brought by the war, which both sides made the Houthis responsible for. [5]
The Supreme Revolutionary Committee (Arabic: اللجنة الثورية, romanized: al-Lajnah al-Thawrīyah), sometimes referred to as the Revolutionary Council or the Revolutionary Committee, [1] [2] [3] is an interim body in Yemen formed by the Zaidiyyah Shia group Ansar Allah (more commonly known as the Houthis).
The United States military said Tuesday its forces had "conducted multiple precision strikes" that hit Houthi targets in Yemen's capital.. The targets had been used by the Iran-backed rebels used ...
Operation Aspides, also known as EUNAVFOR Aspides, is an EU military operation in response to Houthi engagements with international shipping in the Red Sea. [3] Named after the Greek word for shields (greek: Ασπίδες), Operation Aspides—unlike the US-led Operation Prosperity Guardian—is a "purely defensive" mission to increase maritime surveillance in the region, provide escort to ...
Brandt, M. (2017). Tribes and Politics in Yemen: A History of the Houthi Conflict.Oxford University Press. Caton, S. C. (2005). Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of ...
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.
On 11 January 2021, the United States designated al-Houthi's movement as a "terrorist organization". [19] al-Houthi condemned the move by saying that the group "reserves its right to respond" to any designation by the Trump administration. [19] al-Houthi himself was also blacklisted by the United States government in the same measure. [20]