Share via:. In the first six years, the Houthis fought an increasingly effective guerrilla war in their mountainous home provinces, but after , they metamorphosed into the most powerful military entity in the country, capturing the three largest cities in Yemen. The Houthis quickly fielded advanced weapons they had never before controlled, including many of Iranian origin. The Houthi clan are sadah descendants of the prophet , and their modern patriarch was a respected religious scholar, Badr al-Din al-Huthi, an influential preacher until his death by natural causes in By the s, the Zaydi and sadah decline was answered with a new call for Zaydi revival, championed most actively by Badr al-Din al-Huthi and taken up by his prominent sons Hussein, Yahya, Mohammed, and Abdulmalik.
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Inside Yemen’s secret prisons: ‘We could hear the screams’
These are external links and will open in a new window. Houthi rebels in Yemen have released footage which they say shows a major attack on Saudi forces near the border between the two countries. On Saturday, a Houthi spokesman said three Saudi brigades had surrendered near the Saudi town of Najran. The video shows an attack on armoured vehicles, but there is so far no verification of the Houthi claim of a major military success.
Abuse and torture are routine in a network of secret prisons across southern Yemen where hundreds are detained in the hunt for al-Qaida militants, an Associated Press investigation has found. The network is run by the United Arab Emirates and by Yemeni forces it created, with at least 18 lock-ups hidden away in military bases, air and seaports, the basements of private villas and even a nightclub, according to accounts from former detainees, families of prisoners, civil rights lawyers and Yemeni military officials. American defense officials confirmed Wednesday that U.