Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, says one of his plane’s crew members was ...

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 ...

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.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen agreed to step down on Wednesday after 33 years in power, becoming the fourth Arab leader swept away by protests this year. Jeffrey Grocott has details on The ...

26. “Most of Jewish population left Yemen after several years of persecution, which started under former President Ali Abdullah Saleh but intensified under the Houthis. The panel knows of seven ...

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 ...

formed a religious and political movement to protest against Yemen's long-standing ruler, president Ali Abdullah Saleh. In 2004, Saleh responded by ordering the army into Saada. During the ensuing ...

The war became a proxy conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Yemen has remained split between the Houthis, who later broke ...

Britain strikes in Yemen When the Arab Spring came to Yemen in 2011, President Saleh was eventually forced to step down. The Houthis took over Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in September 2014 and tried ...