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Ansar Allah ('Helpers of God'), known more popularly as the Houthi (Arabic: al-Ḥuthiyyun), are a Zaidi group based in north Yemen. The group takes its name from Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, who launched an insurgency in 2004 and was reportedly killed by Yemeni army forces that September.<br/><br/> Led by Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the group succeeded in a coup d'état in 2014–15, taking control of the Yemeni capital Sana'a and the parliament.
Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi (1956 – 10 September 2004), also spelled Hussein Badr Eddin al-Houthi, was a Zaidi religious leader and former member of the Yemeni parliament for the Al-Haqq Islamic party between 1993 and 1997. He was an instrumental figure in the Houthi insurgency against the Yemeni government, which began in 2004.<br/><br/> Al-Houthi, who was a one-time rising political aspirant in Yemen, had wide religious and tribal backing in northern Yemen's mountainous regions. The Houthis movement took his name after his death in 2004.