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Imam Hadi Yahya founded the city of Saada, establishing a theocratic regime that integrated state and religion. Saada became the birthplace and stronghold of the Zaydi sect in Yemen. Today, Zaydis remain one of Yemen's most influential Islamic sects. Saada is also the earliest surviving city with a distinct Arab-Islamic architectural style.
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 ...
Saada is 240 kilometers north of the capital Sanaa. [4] Northwest of its capital, Saada city, the terrain of the governorate becomes increasingly mountainous and reaches elevations of 2,050 meters in the far west. Between these mountains and Saada city, the terrain is peppered with basins and wadis, ultimately dropping to form arid plains in ...
The Houthis, who rule much of Yemen, said they would target all ships heading to Israel, more than 1,000 miles away, and warned international shipping companies against using Israeli ports.
The United States military unleashed a wave of attacks targeting radar sites operated by Yemen's Houthi rebels over their assaults on shipping in the crucial Red Sea corridor, authorities said ...
On 21 January 2022, an airstrike hit a prison in the city of Saada in Yemen, killing at least 87 people [6] and injuring more than 266 others. [7] [8] [4]Fighter jets from the Saudi-led coalition bombed a makeshift prison in Saada province, killing at least 87 prisoners.
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) -Yemen's port city of Hodeidah and other western coastal areas were hit on Monday by at least 17 airstrikes attributed to a U.S.-British coalition defending ships in the Red ...
The Shiara hospital in Razeh District in Saada City, the only hospital with a trauma centre in the governorate of Saada and in most of northern Yemen, was hit on 10 January, and several people were killed, including medical personnel. MSF had been working in the facility since November 2015. [49] [50]