Houthi

🧬 AI profile — grown from 6ic coverage The Houthis are a Zaidi Shia insurgent movement that seized control of Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, in 2014 and now governs large parts of northern Yemen, opposing the internationally recognized government backed by a Saudi‑UAE coalition. Their ongoing missile and drone attacks on Red Sea shipping lanes and oil facilities—intended to pressure the coalition—have disrupted maritime traffic and heightened concerns that the Yemen conflict could undermine global energy security.