Houthis
The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, is a Zaydi revivalist and Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly made... Wikipedia
- Leader: Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (since 2004), Hussein al-Houthi †, (1994–2004)
- Supreme Leader: Mojtaba Khamenei
- Spokesman: Mohammed Abdul Salam
- Founder: Hussein al-Houthi
- Founded: 1994
- Preceded by: Believing Youth
- Headquarters: Saada, Yemen (since 1994), Sanaa, Yemen (since 2014)
- Membership: 100,000 (2011), 200,000 (2020), 220,000 (2022), 350,000 (2024)
- Ideology: Khomeinism, Shia Islamism, Pan-Islamism, Anti-imperialism, Anti-Zionism, Arab nationalism, Pan-Arabism, Yemeni nationalism, Zaydi revivalism, Populism
- Religion: Shia Islam (Zaydi)
- International affiliation: Axis of Resistance (informal)
- Battles and wars: Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict, Houthi insurgency, Yemeni Revolution, Yemeni crisis, Yemeni civil war, Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war, Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict, Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen, Arab–Israeli conflict, Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present), Red Sea crisis, Operation Prosperity Guardian, US & UK missile strikes in Yemen, 2026 Iran war
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