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 ...

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 ...

Yemen is slipping into an uncertain and dangerous future. In early June 2011, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled the country for the past thirty-three years, narrowly escaped an ...

Its long-ruling dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was in power for 33 years before Yemenis deposed him in 2011, after a wave of popular uprisings spread across the region. Saleh handed over power to ...

It was reunited in 1992 under Ali Abdullah Saleh. During the Arab spring (a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the ...

The roots of the conflict in Yemen—a discussion between Washington Editor Andrew Cockburn and Sanaa-based political analyst Abdul-Ghani Al Iryani, with photographs by Alex Potter.