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Yemeni Vice President Khaled Bahah (R), Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi (C) and GCC Secretary-General Abdullatif Al-Zayani at the Riyadh conference on Yemen in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 19, 2015. (SPA)
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Yemen’s exiled President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi (C) arrives for the opening of the Riyadh conference in the Saudi capital on May 17, 2015. (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)
Yemen: Houthis push for Iran participation in UN peace talks
Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Houthi movement has informed the new UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, that it wants Iran to be included in any peace talks to be sponsored by the international organization, Asharq Al-Awsat has learned. Speaking to Asharq...Caption:
People flee as smoke billows after airstrikes hit the house of Yemen’s former president Saleh in Sana’a on May 10, 2015.
(Reuters/Mohamed Al-Sayaghi)
Yemen ruling party to consider steps against Saleh: GPC official
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—The General People’s Congress (GPC), Yemen’s ruling party, will discuss whether to withdraw backing for its leader Ali Abdullah Saleh following his declaration of support for the powerful Houthi rebel group, a leading GPC official told Asharq...Caption:
Militiamen loyal to President Hadi drive tanks outside the Special Security Forces base in Aden on March 19, 2015.
(AFP Photo/STR)
Opinion: The Battle for Yemen’s Future
The Yemeni crisis involves several parties, but it can be summed up as being a conflict between forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Houthi rebels on one hand, and Yemen’s legitimate government on the other, backed by the Saudi-led...Caption:
Smoke billows as supporters of exiled Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi continue to clash with Houthi rebels in the Khor Maksar neighborhood of Aden, on May 3, 2015. (AFP/Saleh Al-Obeid)