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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Houthis الحوثيون The Sarkha, translated as' God is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse be upon the Jews, Victory to Islam,' is the main political slogan of the Houthi movement. Also known as Ansar Allah Leaders Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (since 2004) Hussein al-Houthi ...
The Houthi insurgency, [41] [42] 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 [43]) against the Yemeni military that began in Northern Yemen and has since escalated into a full-scale civil war.
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.
Newly opened smuggling routes between Iran and Yemen greatly limited the costs and risks involved in Iran's provision of materiel support to the Houthis. [8] Between 2011, when the revolt against the government began, [9] and 2014, when the government was overthrown, [9] Iranian support of the Houthis was fairly limited. [8]
In their 6 February 2015 "constitutional declaration" after seizing control of the Yemeni capital and much of former North Yemen, and the failure of Thursday talks between the Houthis and Yemen's many political parties that were aimed at forming a government to replace Hadi and his cabinet, [3] the group declared the committee would act as ...
Tribes and Politics in Yemen: A History of the Houthi Conflict. Oxford University Press. Caton, S. C. (2005). Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation. Hill and Wang. Clark, V. (2010). Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes. Yale University Press. Dresch, P. (2001). A History of Modern Yemen. Cambridge University Press.
The Houthis took control of much of northern Yemen by mid-2014. After President Hadi announced an unpopular cut to fuel subsidies, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi called for demonstrations. In September 2014, the protests gave way to full-blown fighting between Houthi militants and army forces loyal to General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar in the capital city of ...
Banu Houth (Arabic: بنو حوث) or the Houthi tribe (قبيلة الحوثي, qabīlat al-Ḥūthī), is a an ancient Hamdanid Arab tribe that centralizes in northern Yemen, primarily in 'Amran and Saada. The tribe is branched from Banu Hamdan tribe, an ancient Qahtanite tribe of Arabia.