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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 ...
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]
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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.
The President of the board of Al-Masirah is Mohammed Abdulsalam who is also Houthis official spokesman and their chief negotiator. [5]Al-Masirah was founded by the Houthi movement in January 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon and is located next to Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV with backup studios at Hezbollah headquarters. [3]
The Houthi movement in Yemen on Saturday mourned the death of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, its ally in an Iran-backed alliance opposing Israel, in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.
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.
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 ...