Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh has reportedly been killed in fighting with the Iran-aligned Houthi militia in the capital Sanaa, a development expected to unite Yemenis and to have ...

Why were Mr Saleh and the Houthis allies? Mr Saleh, who was 77, came to power as president of North Yemen in 1978. When it united with South Yemen in 1990 he became president of the new republic.

Having avoided the fate of fellow Arab autocrats in 2011, Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed in a roadside gunfight while attempting to flee the capital Sanaa. Saleh will ...

Ex Yemen President Saleh has said he "will turn the page" He has called for talks with the Saudi-led coalition Sanaa has been hit by in-fighting between Saleh loyalists and Houthis Saleh ...

Yemen is slipping into an uncertain and dangerous future. In early June 2011, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled the country for the past thirty-three years, narrowly escaped an ...

In the early 2000s, the Houthis fought a series of rebellions against Yemen's authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. During the 2011 Arab Spring uprising, President Saleh was forced to give ...

TASS/. Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former president of Yemen, called on Russia to step in as a mediator in the settlement of the ongoing crisis in his country, local news web portal reported on Wednesday.

Foreign powers have long failed to achieve military objectives in Yemen, and attacks on the Houthis will likely enhance their ...

With Yemen importing 90 percent of its food ... This week, Houthi rebels deepened the conflict by killing former President Saleh after he made reconciliation overtures to the Saudis.

After the fall of most of the world's Soviet-allied socialist regimes, the two countries merged together to form the Republic of Yemen in 1990 under President Saleh. Despite Yemen's unification ...

President Saleh won 96.3% of the popular vote. Former President Clinton commended Yemen for "its democratic achievements" when Saleh visited the US in April 2000. The proposed constitutional ...