Who are the Houthi Rebels? The Houthi rebels, officially known as Ansar Allah (meaning “Helpers of God” in Arabic), rose to prominence during the 2011 Arab Spring protests. The movement itself began in northern Yemen during the 1990s as a Zaydi Shia identity revivalist group. It was founded by Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, whose family’s […]
