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e. Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (Arabic: علي عبدالله صالح الأحمر ⓘ, ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar; 21 March 1947 [ 4 ][ 5 ][ note 1 ] – 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 ...
Dec 4, 2017 · Ali Abdullah Saleh became an ally of the Houthis after Yemen's civil war began in 2015. Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed amid fighting between his supporters and their ...
May 30, 2017 · Prophet Saleh was sent to warn the people of Thamud, that God was not pleased with their behavior, and would rain down destruction upon them, if they did not mend their evil ways. Saleh was a pious, righteous man who held a position of leadership in the community, but his call to worship God alone infuriated many people.
- Early Years
- Unification
- The Uprising
- Opponents Emboldened
- Saleh Steps Down
- Houthi-Saleh Alliance
- Cracks Emerge
- His Death
Saleh was born in 1946 in the town of Bayt al-Ahmar, some 20km southeast of the capital Sanaa, to the Sanhan tribe, a lesser known branch of the Hashid tribal grouping. With minimal education, he rose through the ranks of the military and spent his early years fighting for the republican government in North Yemen’s civil war, which pitted the Saudi...
Saleh then presided over the unification of North Yemen with the Communist South in 1990, which lost its main patron when the Soviet Union collapsed. The marriage quickly soured, though, with the south frustrated by what it saw as its economic marginalisation at the hands of the northern-dominated government. Still, Saleh proved to be a wily politi...
Saleh’s failures as president fuelled months of popular protests which began in January 2011, shortly after the removal of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. At the onset of the uprising, Yemen was one of the poorest countries in the world, with widespread unemployment and persistent inflation, its billions of dollars in oil revenues embez...
The protests also emboldened the al-Ahmar family, fellow members of Saleh’s Hashed tribal grouping who emerged as his chief political opponents. 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. Saleh repeatedly portr...
Following months of protests, Saleh’s reign ended after he signed a deal brokered by the Gulf Cooperation Council , in which he agreed to step down. He transferred power to his deputy of 18 years, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, before an early election, and in return, received immunity from prosecution. However, he left behind a government that was ill-eq...
However, a few years after he was deposed, Saleh resurfaced when he alliedwith Houthi fighters in 2015. Before that, he had asked Gulf countries for safe passage out of the country when a coalition of Arab states launched a military campaignin 2015 to defeat the Houthis. While there had been six wars between Saleh’s government and the Houthis, Sale...
In 2016, at the revolution’s anniversary, Saleh made a rare appearanceat a large gathering in Sanaa. He attempted to offer an olive branch to the coalition. “We extend a hand of peace, the peace of the brave, for the direct talks with the Saudi regime without a return to the (UN) Security Council, which is incapable of resolving anything,” Saleh to...
On December 4, just days after he announced his willingness for dialogue with the Saudi-led coalition, Saleh was killed in Sanaa. Houthi sources told Al Jazeera that Saleh was killed by the rebels in a rocket-propelled grenade and shooting attack on his car. Footage on social media appeared to show a body resembling Saleh’s, with one video showing ...
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Robert Saleh (born January 31, 1979) is an American professional football coach who most recently was the head coach of the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He has been assistant coach for the Houston Texans , Seattle Seahawks , Jacksonville Jaguars , and San Francisco 49ers .
Feb 19, 2021 · Early Years: Saleh and the Houthis 1990’s – After the reunification of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh transitions from president of North Yemen—a post he had held since 1978—to president of the Republic of Yemen. At the same time, the Zaidi-Shia group Ansar Allah—or the Houthis—gradually gain power; the group’s rise has the tacit support of President Saleh. 1994: Civil War […]
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Dec 5, 2017 · Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed Monday by Houthi rebels as he tried to flee clashes with his allies-turned-foes in the capital.. Saleh’s death at the hands of his former ...
