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New York Times
March 20, 2018
Saudi Arabia's powerful heir apparent, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is visiting Washington and other American cities this week promoting his image as an enlightened reformer out to modernize his conservative country and encourage foreign investment. That image is stained by his chief foreignÃâà...
mySanAntonio.com
March 18, 2018
Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh appears to have been shot after his armoured vehicle was hit by a rocket south of Sanaa. His death comes after he abandoned his one-time allies the Iran-aligned Houthis at the weekend. The rebels claim they have foiled a conspiracy by a Saudi-led coalition backingÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 18, 2018
The half-brother of slain former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been appointed to a top spot in the country's military, announced the government. ... Ali Abdullah Saleh was murdered by the Houthis in December only days after he announced that he was severing his alliance with them and callingÃâà...
gulfnews.com
March 12, 2018
The prime minister, who has recently departed Aden to the Saudi capital, is among the many Yemeni officials who have demanded that the United Nations lift sanctions on Ali Abdullah Salehs son and the country's ambassador to the UAE, Ahmad Ali Abdullah Saleh, in order to effectively rally forces againstÃâà...
The Guardian
March 9, 2018
Two developments in recent months have risked making an already stalemated war even more intractable. In December in Sana'a, Houthi rebels who had taken over the city in 2014 with help from forces loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh killed the former president. The Houthis had accused him of changing sidesÃâà...
Bradenton Herald
March 4, 2018
Ibrahim Alhasbani is like generations of Middle Eastern immigrants in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn: he fled war, came with dreams and worked for others until he could strike out on his own. Now, like an increasing number of people from Yemen who have come to the United States, he sees a long-termÃâà...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 4, 2018
Ibrahim Alhasbani is like generations of Middle Eastern immigrants in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn: he fled war, came with dreams and worked for others until he could strike out on his own. Now, like an increasing number of people from Yemen who have come to the United States, he sees a long-termÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 3, 2018
SANAA (Sputnik) - Yemeni Shia Houthi rebels released 69 supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh killed last year by the Houthis, a source in security bodies told Sputnik. "[The Houthis] released on Saturday 69 military, some of them are high-ranking officers of the Republican Guard andÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
March 3, 2018
Hadi does not have any past to go back to, except perhaps when it comes to reviving the times of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and playing his role. Hadi needs to get over his Saleh complex and ensure Yemen's transition to a new era and relinquish his fantasy of becoming president of aÃâà...
The New Arab
March 3, 2018
Only three months ago, the death of former president and dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh in early December 2017 brought about renewed optimism for the end of the war. Many hoped that Saleh's death would act as a catalyst to unify the coalition led by Saudi Arabia (and supported by the United ArabÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 3, 2018
A Houthi militant reacts as he sits on a tank after the death of Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen December 4, 2017. ... Thursday launched in southwestern Taiz its first attempt at unifying the party's image, after it had been divided by the death of ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 1, 2018
Ahmed Saleh, the eldest son of late former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, described UN sanctions against him as “unjust”, in his first official response to a recent decision by the Security Council to extend the sanctions. Although Saleh's son's statement was mainly devoted to thanking participants inÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
February 17, 2018
Tarek Saleh, the nephew of late Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, was seen in Hodeidah with the city's governor Al-Hassan Taher in the operations ... that Tarek is viewed as the “second man” after Ali Abdullah Saleh and that he's played an efficient role in the uprising against the Houthis in Sanaa.
The National
February 14, 2018
Houthi supporters in Sanaa in December 2017. Houthi-affiliated officials are seizing property owned by Yemen's slain ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his relatives. Yahya Arhab / EPA. Houthi-affiliated officials on Wednesday began seizing property owned by Yemen's slain ex-president Ali AbdullahÃâà...
The National
February 11, 2018
Yemeni soldiers loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was killed by the Houthi rebels, stand guard at a square in Sanaa, Yemen, August 21, 2017. Yahya Arhab / EPA. The International Committee of the Red Cross finished on Sunday a first round of visits to 279 people detained at a major facility inÃâà...
Open Democracy
February 5, 2018
A supporter of Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Picture by Hani Al-Ansi/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved.It is often said that the troubles of the post-Arab Spring nations is their unfortunate metamorphosis into a regional proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. In the case of Yemen, thisÃâà...
The Times
February 2, 2018
For three decades Ali Abdullah Saleh, one of the less charismatic and internationally celebrated of the Middle East's “strongmen”, kept power by playing off one faction against another. Nationalists, socialists, Islamists and al-Qaeda all benefited over the years from the chaos underlying the appearance ofÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 6, 2017
Saleh was a corrupt, ruthless autocrat. Yet his demise has left a power vacuum in Yemen and he will be missed by many. Nabeel Khoury by Nabeel Khoury. 6 Dec 2017. A poster of Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh is seen on a door of a shop in an old quarter of Yemen's capital Sanaa [MohamedÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 6, 2017
Saleh was a corrupt, ruthless autocrat. Yet his demise has left a power vacuum in Yemen and he will be missed by many. Nabeel Khoury by Nabeel Khoury. 6 Dec 2017. A poster of Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh is seen on a door of a shop in an old quarter of Yemen's capital Sanaa [MohamedÃâà...
New York Times
December 5, 2017
The death of the former strongman, Ali Abdullah Saleh, brought to a grim end the career of a wily politician who combined charisma, duplicity and brute force to remain a giant in the politics of his impoverished Arabian country for decades. Mr. Saleh's death signaled a turning point in the country's war byÃâà...
BBC News
December 4, 2017
Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed amid fighting between his supporters and their former allies, the Houthi rebel movement. Officials from Mr Saleh's General People's Congress party said he died in an attack south of the capital, Sanaa. The Houthis' leader hailed the news as aÃâà...
New York Times
December 4, 2017
Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former leader of Yemen, was known as a hardy survivor of Middle Eastern politics who had ruled for more than three decades and re-emerged to play a major role in his country's devastating civil war. Mr. Saleh, who was killed on Monday in Yemen under circumstances that remainedÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 4, 2017
Yemen's ousted leader Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed by Houthi rebels near the capital, Sanaa, a development expected to have major implications for the war in the Arab world's poorest country. The death was first announced on Monday by the Sanaa-based interior ministry, controlled by Saleh'sÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
December 31, 1999
LONDON - The internationally recognised government of Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi made a series of military appointments that seem aimed at curtailing the powers of relatives of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The government-controlled Saba news agency published decrees inÃâà...
