Database: Identifiers of Designated Islamic Terrorist Organizations
Harakat Ansar Allah (Yemen)
Designation Status (as of October 12, 2026)
| US State Dept FTO | Listed Ansarallah since March 5, 2025; earlier listing removed February 16, 2021 |
|---|---|
| US Treasury OFAC SDN (SDGT) | Listed ANSARALLAH |
| UK Proscribed | Not listed official list |
| EU Terrorist Lists | Not listed official list |
| Canada Listed Entities | Listed Ansarallah since December 2, 2024 |
| Australia Listed | Listed Ansar Allah |
Profile written 2014 The profile below is the original Jihad Intel text and has not been updated. Designation status above is current.
Not yet designated terrorist by a Western country
Base of operations: Yemen
Harakat Ansar Allah- more conventionally known as the Houthi movement- is a Zaydi Shi'a insurgent movement in Yemen that originated as a far northern uprising against the Ali Abdullah Saleh government in 2004. Led by one Abd al-Malik al-Houthi, the group has taken advantage of the ever growing chaos since the Arab Spring in 2011 to seize the Yemeni capital Sanaa in September 2014 from the government and has since been pushing ever further south in an alliance with Saleh (who resigned as president in 2012 but was never truly sidelined and retained loyalty within ranks of the Yemeni army), threatening to take the port city of Aden. Considerable debate surrounds the nature of the movement's relationship with Iran, which provides at least some support and has some links. U.S. intelligence assessments have recently affirmed that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps have been training and arming Houthi units.
