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- Saleh was killed as he tried to flee Sanaa for his native town of Sanhan. His Sanaa home had been under Houthi siege for more than 48 hours before he decided to leave. His vehicle was stopped at a checkpoint south of Sanaa, a senior Houthi commander told CNN. Clashes broke out, killing him and several of his senior aides, the commander said.
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Dec 4, 2017 · Earlier today, videos showing armed fighters carrying former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh’s body surfaced online and shocked the region. The General People’s Congress (GPC) confirmed that Saleh and Assistant Secretary General to the party Yasser al-Awadi were killed in a Houthi attack on one of his compounds.
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Dec 6, 2017 · CAIRO (AP) — Former Yemeni strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh’s death at the hands of his own allies, the Shiite rebels known as Houthis, has put the impoverished nation’s three-year civil war at a crossroads, and there are several widely differing directions it could now go.
Dec 5, 2017 · Hamid al-Ahmar, a prominent businessman, was seen as a possible successor to Saleh, while his brother, Hussein al-Ahmar, quit the ruling party in February and publicly rebuked Saleh.
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Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (Arabic: علي عبدالله صالح الأحمر ⓘ, ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar; 21 March 1947 – 4 December 2017) was a Yemeni politician who served as the first President of the Republic of Yemen, from Yemeni unification on 22 May 1990, to his resignation on 27 February 2012, following the ...
Dec 6, 2017 · On 4 December, Huthi fighters killed Yemen’s former president and their erstwhile ally, Ali Abdullah Saleh. His violent death and the military defeat of his loyalists in Sanaa were the culmination of months of growing tensions between Saleh’s General People’s Congress party (GPC) and the Huthis.
Feb 19, 2021 · Saleh’s son, Ahmed Ali Saleh, has vowed revenge against the Houthis for his father’s assassination. January 2018 – In a firefight, the Southern Transitional Council (STC), the United Arab Emirates-backed separatist movement seeking a revival of the formerly independent South Yemen, seizes control of Aden, Yemen’s main southern city and ...
