The killing of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former Yemeni president, removes the country’s most important political figure for four decades from a complex equation that has plunged the Arab world’s poorest nation into conflict and sparked the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. His death marks a dramatic shift three years into a
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Yemenis shelter from airstrikes, battles in capital
SANAA, Yemen: Yemenis in the war-torn country’s capital crowded into basements overnight as Saudi-led fighter jets pounded the positions of Houthi terrorists, who are now fighting forces loyal to a former president for control of the city. Suze van Meegen, Sanaa-based protection and advocacy adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council, said
Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s former leader, killed in Sanaa
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 a "great and significant
