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The name came from the surname of the early leader of the movement, Hussein al-Houthi, who died in 2004. [ 154 ] Membership of the group had between 1,000 and 3,000 fighters as of 2005 [ 155 ] and between 2,000 and 10,000 fighters as of 2009. [ 156 ]
Pro-Houthi Yemeni Armed Forces. Pro-Houthi Yemeni Army [34] Yemeni Air Force (2015–17) Supreme Revolutionary Committee; Special Security Forces (2015–17) Pro-Saleh Security Forces (2015–17) Republican Guard (2015–17) Special Operations Forces (2015–17) Allied groups: Houthis; Pro-Houthi Popular Committees; Liwa Fatemiyoun [35]
The Houthi movement is a predominately Zaidi Shia force, whose leadership is drawn largely from the Houthi tribe. Pages in category "Houthi members" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Joint British-U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen's Houthi rebels killed at least 16 people and wounded 35 others, the rebels said Friday, the highest publicly acknowledged death toll from the ...
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.
CAIRO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Yemen's Houthi militants are believed to have sunk a second ship, the Tutor, in the Red Sea, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Tuesday. The ...
Yemen's Houthi militia held a funeral on Saturday for at least 17 militants killed during joint U.S.-British airstrikes targeting the Iran-backed militants, the Houthi-run Saba news agency said.
Al-Houthi was born in Saada Governorate, Yemen Arab Republic, into the Houthi tribe on 22 May 1979. [2] [3] He is a Zaydi Shia Muslim.His father, Badreddin al-Houthi, was a religious scholar of Yemen's minority Zaydi sect. Abdul-Malik is the youngest among his eight brothers. [4]