Houthi insurgency in Yemen

The increasing tension between the Believing Youth and the Saleh regime transformed the network into a broader movement. Saleh’s support for the United States’ war on terrorism and 2003 invasion of Iraq prompted anger from the movement’s sympathizers, who believed Saleh was supporting…

…key grievance leading to the Houthi rebellion in the early 21st century as well as the civil war in the 2010s.

In the north the long-simmering Houthi rebellion gained strength. Meanwhile, fighters belonging to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), an Islamist terrorist group, were able to take control of several cities in the southern province of Abyan.