Qualla: Houthi insurgency https://qualla.com/houthi-insurgency en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/p/1/houthi-insurgency-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Houthi insurgency https://qualla.com/houthi-insurgency Houthi insurgency: Introduction https://qualla.com/houthi-insurgency/ Photo credit Henry Ridgwell (VOA), Public domain. On 10 September 2004, Yemeni soldiers killed Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi in the mountains of Sa'dah, Yemen's northernmost governorate. He was a Zaidi religious leader and a former parliamentarian. The government had placed a $55,000 bounty on him three months earlier and sent in troops to collect. Hundreds to a thousand died in that first fight. The war went on. Al-Houthi's brother Abdul-Malik took over the movement. His followers became known as the Houthis - Ansar Allah, Supporters of God, in their own telling - and over the next decade and a half they would roll down from Sa'dah through Sana'a and into a conflict that would draw in Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United States, and leave millions of Yemenis hungry.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/p/1/houthi-insurgency-wp/sgp1-houthi-insurgency-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Houthi insurgency: The North That Fell Off the Map https://qualla.com/houthi-insurgency/ Photo credit Henry Ridgwell (VOA), Public domain. In 1962, a revolution in North Yemen ended over a thousand years of rule by Zaidi Imams, a branch of Shia Islam whose spiritual leaders had claimed descent from the Prophet's family. Sa'dah, the imams' old stronghold, never recovered economically after their fall. During Yemen's ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/p/1/houthi-insurgency-wp/sgp1-houthi-insurgency-the-north-that-fell-off-the-map.mp3 0:06 2 full Houthi insurgency: Six Rounds of War https://qualla.com/houthi-insurgency/ Photo credit Henry Ridgwell (VOA), Public domain. The Sa'dah Wars unfolded in phases. The first round, June-September 2004, killed 500 to 1,000 before al-Houthi's death. The second, March-June 2005, added 1,500 more. Rounds three through five from 2005 to 2008 displaced tens of thousands and killed hundreds of government soldier...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/p/1/houthi-insurgency-wp/sgp1-houthi-insurgency-six-rounds-of-war.mp3 0:06 3 full Houthi insurgency: From Revolution to Civil War https://qualla.com/houthi-insurgency/ Photo credit IsaKazimi (talk), Public domain. The Arab Spring came to Yemen in 2011. On 27 January, over 16,000 demonstrators filled Sana'a's squares. Nobel-laureate-to-be Tawakkol Karman called a Day of Rage on 3 February. President Ali Abdullah Saleh, 33 years in power, announced he would not run again. On 27 February the ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/p/1/houthi-insurgency-wp/sgp1-houthi-insurgency-from-revolution-to-civil-war.mp3 0:06 4 full Houthi insurgency: The Civilians in the Middle https://qualla.com/houthi-insurgency/ Photo credit Henry Ridgwell (VOA), Public domain. The 2015 UN report on Yemen counted 277 civilian deaths from just the 2009-2010 Saudi bombing campaign; that figure is a floor, not a ceiling, and much later counts describe the war's civilian toll in the hundreds of thousands when starvation, cholera, and collapsed medical syste...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/p/1/houthi-insurgency-wp/sgp1-houthi-insurgency-the-civilians-in-the-middle.mp3 0:06 5 full Houthi insurgency: Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the War That Will Not End https://qualla.com/houthi-insurgency/ Photo credit Henry Ridgwell (VOA), Public domain. The Yemeni and Saudi governments both accused Iran of arming and training the Houthis, citing intercepted ships, Revolutionary Guard advisors, and Hezbollah operatives allegedly embedded in Yemen from 2013. Iran denied direct involvement; independent verification was difficult in...

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