Houthi movement

This article is about the Yemen-based Islamist political and military organization. For the Arab tribe in northern Yemen, see Houthi tribe. For the Tajik Islamist militant group, see Jamaat Ansarullah.
"Ansar Allah" redirects here. For other uses, see Ansar Allah (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Hutu.

Houthis
الحوثيون
Leaders
SpokesmanMohammed Abdul Salam[1]
Dates of operation1994–present
Group(s)Houthi tribe and Zaidi Shias
HeadquartersSaada, Yemen (since 1994)
Sanaa, Yemen (since 2014)
Active regionsYemen (incl. Saudi Arabia–Yemen border)[2]
Ideology
Size100,000 (2011)[24][25]
200,000 (2020)[26]
AlliesState allies:
Non-state allies:
OpponentsState opponents:
Non-state opponents:
Battles and wars
Designated as a terrorist group by

The Houthi movement (/ˈhuːθi/; Arabic: الحوثيون, romanized: al-Ḥūthiyūn [al.ħuː.θi.juːn]), officially known as Ansar Allah,[f] is a Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly made up of Zaidi Shias, with their namesake leadership being drawn largely from the Houthi tribe.[91]

Under the leadership of Zaidi religious leader Hussein al-Houthi, the Houthis emerged as an opposition movement to Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh, whom they accused of corruption and being backed by Saudi Arabia and the United States.[92][93] In 2003, influenced by the Lebanese Shia political and military organization Hezbollah, the Houthis adopted their official slogan against the United States, Israel, and the Jews.[94] Al-Houthi resisted Saleh's order for his arrest, and was afterwards killed by the Yemeni military in Saada in 2004, sparking the Houthi insurgency.[95][96] Since then, the movement has been mostly led by his brother Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.[95]

The organization took part in the Yemeni Revolution of 2011 by participating in street protests and coordinating with other Yemeni opposition groups. They joined Yemen's National Dialogue Conference but later rejected the 2011 reconciliation deal.[14][97] In late 2014, the Houthis repaired their relationship with Saleh, and with his help they took control of the capital city. The takeover prompted a Saudi-led military intervention to restore the internationally recognized government, leading to an ongoing civil war which included missile and drone attacks against Saudi Arabia and its ally United Arab Emirates.[98][99][100] Following the outbreak of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, the Houthis began to fire missiles at Israel and to attack ships off Yemen's coast in the Red Sea, which they say is in solidarity with the Palestinians and aiming to facilitate entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.[101][102]

The Houthi movement attracts followers in Yemen by portraying themselves as fighting for economic development and the end of the political marginalization of Zaidi Shias,[97] as well as by promoting regional political–religious issues in its media. The Houthis have a complex relationship with Yemen's Sunnis; the movement has discriminated against Sunnis but has also allied with and recruited them.[103][104][14] The Houthis aim to govern all of Yemen and support external movements against the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.[105] Because of the Houthis' ideological background, the conflict in Yemen is widely seen as a front of the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy war.[106]


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