The group that just toppled Yemen's government?
"On Thursday, the entire government of Yemen's president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi – a key U.S. ally in the region – resigned. Following the resignations, control of the country appears to have been turned over to Houthi rebels, a group that is both opposed to U.S. influence and is allegedly supported by Iran.
Yemen is a key area of concern for the United States, in large part due to the presence of the country's much-feared and powerful al-Qaeda affiliate. Yet the Houthis are little known outside the country. What does their success mean?
Who are the Houthis, and where did they come from?
The Houthis are a Shiite insurgency group that originated from northwestern Yemen's Saada province. Charles Schmitz, a professor at Towson University, writes that their origins lie in the Shabab al-Mumanin (the Believing Youth), a group that operated in the early 1990s. The Believing Youth worked to raise awareness about the Zaydi branch of Shiite Islam, which had dominated Yemen for centuries but was sidelined after a civil war in the 1960s and repressed by the Yemeni government…"
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