He is a Yemeni politician and religious leader who has leading the Houthi movement since 2006. He assumed leadership of the movement in 2006 after the killing of his brother, Hussein Badr al-Din ...

Founded in the 1990s by Hussein al-Houthi, the group fought Yemen’s government in the early 2000s. During the 2011 Arab Spring, they capitalized on unrest, seizing northern territory and ...