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September 7, 2021
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In news– Recently, Saudi Arabia intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. 

What is the issue?

  • Saudi Arabia is mired in a years-long, deadlocked war backing Yemen’s toppled government against the Iranian-backed Houthis. 
  • The Saudi-led war, which began in March 2015, has seen an uptick in recent months amid a Houthi effort to capture the city of Marib. 
  • That has also seen a renewal of long-range attacks by the Houthis in Saudi Arabia. 

About Houthis-

  • The Houthis are Zaydi Shiites, or Zaydiyyah. 
  • Shiite Muslims are the minority community in the Islamic world and Zaydis are a minority of Shiites, significantly different in doctrine and beliefs from the Shiites who dominate in Iran, Iraq, and elsewhere (often called Twelvers for their belief in twelve Imams).
  • The Zadiyyah take their name from Zayd bin Ali, the great grandson of Ali, Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law, whom all Shiites revere.

Houthi Movement:

  • The Houthi movement, officially called Ansar Allah (meaning “Supporters of God”), is an Islamic political and armed movement that emerged from Sa’dah in northern Yemen in the 1990s.  
  • The movement was called Houthis because its founder is from the Houthi tribe.
  • The Houthis began as a moderate theological movement that preached tolerance and held a broad-minded view of all the Yemeni peoples. 
  • Under the leadership of Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, the group emerged as an opposition to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
  • They charged Saleh with massive financial corruption and criticized for being backed by Saudi Arabia and the United States at the expense of the Yemeni people and Yemen’s sovereignty.
  • Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi was killed in Sa’dah in 2004 along with a number of his guards by the Yemeni army, sparking the Houthi insurgency in Yemen.
  • Since then, except for a short intervening period, the movement has been led by his brother Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.
  • The movement’s expressed goals include combating economic underdevelopment and political marginalization in Yemen while seeking greater autonomy for Houthi-majority regions of the country.
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