Who are Yemen's Houthis and what do they want?
Officially known as Ansar Allah, or "helpers of God", the movement emerged in Yemen's far north in the 1990s around the cleric Hussein al-Houthi. It is rooted in Zaydism, a branch of Shia Islam whose followers are a minority in Yemen but concentrated in the northern highlands. The group fought six rounds of war with the government of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh between 2004 and 2010. Hussein al-Houthi was killed in the first and leadership passed to his brother, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi…
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