Yemen party
Ansar Allah (Houthis)
أنصار الله (الحوثيون)Zaydi Shia revivalist movement that took Sana'a in September 2014 and remains the de facto government of northern Yemen. Iran-aligned within the regional "Axis of Resistance"; from late 2023 launched Red Sea attacks framed as solidarity with Gaza.
- Founded
- 1992
- Current leader
- Abdul-Malik al-Houthi
- Founders
- Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi
Position — compass as of 2026-06-08
First-pass hand-coded estimate; pending second-pass external review. See methodology for the rubric.
Across the dataset
Open full comparison →Nearest
Closest by average Euclidean distance across all axes.
Most divergent
Farthest by the same metric. Useful for "anti-axis" framing.
Position — all axes
Members & affiliated figures
Politicians currently identified with this party — leaders, ministers, MPs, and other active figures. All affiliated politicians →
Recent events
Political events involving this party — formations, mergers, leadership changes, designation shifts. All events at /pulse →
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Houthis take Sanaa
Houthi forces, allied at the time with ousted ex-President Saleh, took control of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on 2014-09-21, forcing the recognized government south to Aden. Triggered the Saudi-led coalition's March 2015 military intervention and the ongoing Yemen war.
Declared vs. behavioral
For the axes below, this party's declared position (what the party says in its platform / official rhetoric) diverges from its behavioral position (its record of votes, coalition choices, or public actions). The spread itself is the methodological point — capturing the gap that a single composite score collapses.
- Civil liberties spread: 8.0D: +0.0 B: -8.0 C: -8.5
- Liberal democracy spread: 11.0D: +3.0 B: -8.0 C: -9.0
- Pan-Arab vs particularist spread: 7.0D: +8.0 B: +1.0 C: -2.0
Lens spreads are currently hand-coded on a curated set of cases where the gap is well-documented. Document-grounded scoring against the party's own platform documents (declared) and its voting / coalition record (behavioral) will scale this across the dataset. See methodology for the full lens-system roadmap.
Source documents
Texts the scoring pipeline reads — manifestos, speeches, platforms. Each document's verbatim content backs the position score above; the model cites specific phrases from these texts when scoring. All documents →
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Speech English 2025-03-28 Abdul-Malik al-Houthi — Al-Quds Platform (Quds Day) speech, 28 March 2025 (SABA English translation)
I extend my greetings to the oppressed Palestinian people, to those steadfast at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to the mujahidin in Gaza and the West Bank. We remember the martyr Al-Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the leader Ismail…
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Party platform Arabic 2019-03-26 الرؤية الوطنية لبناء الدولة اليمنية الحديثة (National Vision for Building the Modern Yemeni State) — Ansar Allah / SPC governance programme
بعد مرور عامٍ من إطلاق الرئيس الشهيد صالح الصماد لمشروع بناء الدولة "يدٌ تحمي ويدٌ تبني" يقر المجلس السياسي الأعلى الرؤية الوطنية لبناء الدولة اليمنية الحديثة، ويصدر بها قرار رئيس المجلس السياسي الأعلى رقم "82" لسنة…
Sources
Per-field citations for the verified claims above. Other fields (notably the compass scores) remain hand-coded priors and are marked unverified until they pass the methodology pipeline — see methodology.
- founded_year en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Movement origins 1990s; took Sanaa September 2014
- current_leader_text en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Leader since 2004 after killing of brother Hussein
- legal_status_note en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 US FTO designation re-applied 2024; controls about 70 percent of Yemens population
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Ansar Allah (Houthis) [Party profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/houthis
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Ansar Allah (Houthis)." Party profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/houthis.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-houthis,
title = {{Ansar Allah (Houthis)}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Party profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/houthis},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.