The Houthi rebels, formally known as Ansar Allah, are a Zaydi Shia revivalist political and military group based in Yemen.
They emerged in the 1990s and have become one of the most powerful and controversial actors in the region’s conflict[1][2][3][4].
The Houthi rebels thus stand as a potent, well-organized force, with ideological, regional, and material ties to Iran, holding decisive control over much of northwest Yemen and wielding significant conventional and unconventional military resources[2][4][5][8].