During 2014, Yemen observers suspected former President Ali Abdullah Saleh of facilitating, if not orchestrating, the Houthi military expansion into the Governorates of Amran and Sana’a. At that time, Saleh and his loyalists at the General People Congress (GPC) were leading a counterrevolution against President Abdrahbu Mansour Hadi and his backers from the Islah party (Yemen’s Muslim Brotherhood), who had spearheaded the “Arab Spring” uprising of 2011. On July 8, 2014, the battle-hardened Houthi fighters, locally known as the Popular Committees (PCs), seized control of the city of Amran, the northwestern gateway into the capital Sana'a. By the evening of September 21, the PCs had captured the Sana'a City Municipality. Although the Houthi-Saleh alliance was implicit at first, it was formalized in early August with the formation of the Supreme Political Council (SPC). The anti-Hadi coup had achieved its goal.
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机译：2014年，也门观察家怀疑前总统阿里·阿卜杜拉·萨利赫（Ali Abdullah Saleh）促进（如果不是精心策划的话）胡希军事力量扩展到阿姆兰和萨那省。当时，萨利赫（Saleh）和他在全国人民代表大会（GPC）上的拥护者正在领导一场反革命，反对总统阿卜杜拉布·曼苏尔·哈迪（Abdrahbu Mansour Hadi）及其支持的伊斯兰党（也门穆斯林兄弟会）的支持者，后者曾率先发起了2011年“阿拉伯之春”起义。 2014年7月8日，在战场上hard风云集的胡塞族战斗人员（即人民委员会）夺取了通往首都萨那的西北门户安然市的控制权。到9月21日晚上，个人电脑已经占领了萨那市。尽管胡塞-萨利赫联盟最初是隐含的，但它在8月初正式成立，当时成立了最高政治委员会（SPC）。反哈迪政变已经实现了目标。
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