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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. [93]
A video shared on X claims to show missiles flying over Saudi Arabia, originally fired from Yemen to Israel. Verdict: Misleading The video appears to be from Yemen and was taken in 2018. Fact ...
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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]
HISTORY. In the late 1990s, the Houthi family in far north Yemen set up a religious revival movement for the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam, which had once ruled Yemen but whose northern heartland ...
Yemen's Houthis have joined the Israel-Hamas war raging more than 1,000 miles from their seat of power in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, declaring on Oct. 31 they had fired drones and missiles at ...
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 ...
US and UK militaries have launched strikes on Yemen-based militant group which has been targeting commercial vessels and warships in the Red Sea