Houthi movement

The Houthi movement (; "al-Ḥūthīyūn" ), officially called Ansar Allah (' "Supporters of God") and simply knowns Houthis, is an Islamist political and armed movement. It began in Saada in north Yemen in the 1990s. The Houthi movement is a Zaidi Shia majority force. 
Under the leadership of Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, the group was an opposition to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh.