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The Houthi movement spokesperson said that the group controlled most of the Al Jawf District with the exception of some areas close to Saudi Arabia; the areas captured by the group comprised the Khub wal Shaaf and Yatma districts. The Houthi forces then turned the offensive on the Ma'rib Governorate with the aim of attacking Ma'rib city. [20] [25]
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 ]
Since 2014, Yemen has been engulfed in a civil war fought between several factions. These can be divided into two main camps: the Houthi movement, which dominates northern Yemen, and a loose coalition of anti-Houthi forces that hold the remaining parts of the country. [3]
Houthi attacks on commercial ships in the Bab-el-Mandeb strait.. On 16 February 2021, the Biden administration removed Ansar Allah, the formal political and military organization of the Houthi movement, from the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) blacklist, [21] due to concerns that the designation would impede the delivery of humanitarian aid amid Yemen's worsening political and ...
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are stepping up their strikes on ships in the Red Sea, which they say are revenge against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza.
JERUSALEM − Israel struck multiple targets linked to the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen on ... Houthi-run Al Masirah TV said two people were killed in the strikes on the airport and one ...
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Saada has been a site of violent confrontations for years between the Yemeni government and the rebels known as the Houthi movement. The conflict was sparked in June 2004 by Ali Abdullah Saleh government's attempt to arrest Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, the Zaydi religious leader who founded the Houthi movement and a former Al-Haqq parliamentarian on whose head the government had placed a US ...