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Yemeni security forces are deployed on the street in the southern city of Aden during clashes following a demonstration by members of the separatist Southern Movement calling for independence from the north of the country on December 8, 2014. (AFP Photo)
by Arafat Madabish | Dec 9, 2014 | Middle East
Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s Shi’ite Houthi movement, in alliance with former South Yemen president Ali Salim Al-Beidh, are seeking to create a two-region federal state, sources have told Asharq Al-Awsat. The Yemeni sources, speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat on the...
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Pro-democracy protesters demonstrate to call for the prosecution of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa March 7, 2013. (REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Mar 19, 2013 | Opinion
In 1990, three months before Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Iraq, North Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh surprised everyone by announcing his agreement with South Yemen leader Ali Salem al-Beidh to integrate the two regimes and unify. Optimism reigned...
