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 ...

In the early 2000s, the Houthis fought a series of rebellions against Yemen's authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Yemen’s Houthi insurgents have killed Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country’s former president. Saleh and the Houthis conducted a multi-year insurgency against the internationally-recognized government of ...

Strikes on Israel by Yemen's militant Houthis and Israeli attacks on Yemen are intensifying. Who are the Houthis? And what do ...

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 ...

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

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 ...