During the imamate, Yemen’s rulers came exclusively from Sayyid families. But not all Sayyids embrace Houthi political aspirations, and Houthis do not represent all Sayyids.

— The Zaydis founded a dynasty known as the imamate in northern Yemen that ruled for some 1,000 years. A 1962 revolution in Yemen toppled the last imam, Mohammed Ahmed, and established a republic.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The Shiite rebels who seized Yemen's capital of Sanaa, ... — The Zaydis founded a dynasty known as the imamate in northern Yemen that ruled for some 1,000 years.

There are no rules of hereditary succession to the feudal throne of the Imam of Yemen, and the reigning Sword of Islam wields it only so long as he can keep his enemies at bay. The enemies are ...

Yemen's promise, often overlooked. ... Development mission in Taiz, I had the good fortune to join German aid experts in a tour the length and breadth of Yemen during the last days of the Imamate.

In 1962, Yemeni revolutionaries overthrew the country’s centuries-old Zaydi Shia imamate to found the Yemen Arab Republic, an Arab Nationalist state, in the northwestern half of present-day Yemen. But ...

All the nine recognized sons of aging (77) Yahya bin Mohamed bin Hamid el Din, Imam of Yemen, in the southwestern corner of Arabia, are entitled to be called Saif el Islam (Sword of Islam). The ...

Yemen specialists say the Houthis are a political movement, ... mission for the Houthis is to "revive the legacy of his ancestors," a project she described as installing a Zaydi imamate, ...

For its part, northern Yemen’s imamate gained de facto independence after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the revolution in Turkey.

By 2010, the C.I.A. ranked the reconfigured Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, as the most dangerous threat to U.S. security. Saleh’s ruthless rule was unable to hold Yemen together.