The Houthis, if anything, may actually be relishing US strikes. They are a “direct answer to the Houthi prayers to have a war ...

The title, still reverently used by supporters of the General People’s Congress, belongs to the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh. It’s also increasingly difficult these days to reach his nephew, Brig ...

Yet, every word he said proved to be true. He once said, “Sergeant Ali Abdullah Saleh, who became the president of Yemen, is illiterate and afraid to step even one meter outside of Sana’a. Despite ...

Unsurprisingly, the Houthis played a major role in the Arab Spring when it came around to Sadaa in 2011, which resulted in Saleh finally stepping down after decades in power. But when his ...

However, it was seldom ruled as one consolidated entity. Before unification under Ali Abdullah Saleh in 1990, Yemen’s south was for decades a Marxist-Leninist republic, while the north was ruled ...

Saleh, the nephew of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, commands the elite National Resistance Forces, also known as the Guards of the Republic, stationed along Yemen's western coast near the ...

The Houthis survived several offensives during the long presidency of Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen, then a Saudi offensive ten years ago, followed by more recent Israeli, UK and US airstrikes.

The international community should take more responsibility for its role in giving the Houthis a leg up in Yemen’s decade-long civil war. Ten years ago, in March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition ...