Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar was a Yemeni politician who served as the first President of Yemen,from Yemeni unification on 22 May 1990 to his resignation on 25 February 2012,following the Yemeni Revolution. Previously,he had served as President of the Yemen Arab Republic,or North Yemen,from July 1978 to 22 May 1990,after the assassination of President Ahmad al-Ghashmi.
The president of the Republic of Yemen is the head of state of Yemen. Under the Constitution of Yemen,the president is also the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and head of the executive branch of the Yemeni government.
Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar is the eldest son of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh,and was a commander of approximately 80,000 troops of the Republican Guard unit of the Yemeni Army. On April 14,2015,the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control added Saleh to the list of Specially Designated Nationals,barring US citizens and businesses from interacting with Saleh or his assets.
Ali Mohammed Mujawar served as Prime Minister of Yemen between 7 April 2007 and 10 December 2011,and prior as electricity minister.
Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi is a Yemeni politician and former field marshal of the Yemeni Armed Forces who served as the president of Yemen from 2012 until 2022,when he stepped down and transferred executive authority to the Presidential Leadership Council,with Rashad al-Alimi as its chairman. He was the vice president to Ali Abdullah Saleh from 1994 to 2012.
The Yemeni Revolution followed the initial stages of the Tunisian Revolution and occurred simultaneously with the 2011 Egyptian revolution and other Arab Spring protests in the Middle East and North Africa. In its early phase,protests in Yemen were initially against unemployment,economic conditions and corruption,as well as against the government's proposals to modify Yemen's constitution. The protesters' demands then escalated to calls for the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Mass defections from the military,as well as from Saleh's government,effectively rendered much of the country outside of the government's control,and protesters vowed to defy its authority.
Ali Mohsen Saleh al-Ahmar,sometimes spelled Muhsin,is a Yemeni military officer who served as the vice president of Yemen from 2016 to 2022,when he was dismissed by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi,who transferred the powers of the president and vice president to the Presidential Leadership Council. He is a general in the Yemeni Army and was the commander of the northwestern military district and the 1st Armoured Division. He played a leading role in the creation of the General People's Congress.
Khaled Mahfoudh Bahah is a Yemeni politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Yemen between 2014 and 2016,as well as Vice President of Yemen from 2015 to 2016. He is know the Yemen's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Egypt.
Mohammed Salim Basindawa is a Yemeni politician who was Prime Minister of Yemen from 10 December 2011 to 24 September 2014.
The following is a timeline of the 2011–2012 Yemeni revolution from January to 27 February 2012. The Yemeni revolution was a series of major protests,political tensions,and armed clashes taking place in Yemen,which began in January 2011 and were influenced by concurrent protests in the region. Hundreds of protesters,members of armed groups,army soldiers and security personnel were killed,and many more injured,in the largest protests to take place in the South Arabian country for decades.
The Vice President of the Republic of Yemen is the second highest political position in Yemen.
Mohammed Nasser Ahmed is a Yemeni major general,who was the defense minister of Yemen between 2006 and 2014.
The Special Security Forces,formerly known until 2013 as the Central Security Organization,is a paramilitary force in Yemen under the control of the Minister of the Interior and forms a key part of the Yemeni security establishment. The force was some 50,000 strong as of 2008,before the Yemeni Crisis began,and SSF units are equipped with a range of infantry weapons and armored personnel carriers. The force also has its own extrajudicial detention facilities.
The Yemeni Crisis began with the 2011–2012 revolution against President Abdullah Saleh,who had led Yemen for 33 years. After Saleh left office in early 2012 as part of a mediated agreement between the Yemeni government and opposition groups,the government led by Saleh's former vice president,Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi,struggled to unite the fractious political landscape of the country and fend off threats both from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and from Houthi militants that had been waging a protracted insurgency in the north for years.
The aftermath of the Houthi takeover in Yemen refers to developments following the Houthis' takeover of the Yemeni capital of Sana'a and dissolution of the government,which eventually led to a civil war and the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.
Abdel-Aziz bin Habtour is a Yemeni politician who served as Governor of Aden during the Houthi takeover in Yemen. He is a member of the General People's Congress,sitting on its permanent committee since 1995. An ally of President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi,he condemned the 2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état and received the deposed leader after his flight from the Houthi-controlled capital of Sanaa on 21 February 2015. He is also a vocal opponent of the separatist movement in the former South Yemen,saying the movement is too fractured and small to achieve its goals.
The Supreme Political Council is a largely unrecognised executive body formed by the Houthi movement and the General People's Congress (GPC) to rule Yemen. Formed on 28 July 2016,the presidential council consists of nine members and was headed by Saleh Ali al-Sammad as president until his death from a drone air strike on 19 April 2018 with Qassem Labozah as vice-president. The territory that it rules consists most of the former North Yemen,which united with South Yemen in 1990.
Tareq Mohammed Abdullah Saleh is a Yemeni military commander and the nephew of the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh. He is currently a member of the presidential council of Yemen. His father was Major General Mohammed Abdullah Saleh. Prior to the national crisis beginning in 2011,he headed the elite Presidential Guard. In 2012,he was ordered to stand down from this position. On 10 April 2013,he was appointed as a military attachéto Germany in an effort to remove the remnants of the previous regime. He re-emerged as a commander in the Houthi-Saleh alliance when the Yemeni Civil War broke out in 2015. When this alliance collapsed in 2017,Tareq Saleh commanded troops loyal to his uncle. Prior to the collapse of the pro-Saleh forces,the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya reported that negotiations were ongoing to form a military council in Saleh-held areas,which would have been headed by Tareq. Following his uncle's death,reports emerged that the younger Saleh had also been killed. However,these were never confirmed,and Houthi forces launched a manhunt. Saleh evaded capture and eventually resurfaced in the Hadi loyalist-held Shabwah Governorate.
Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi is a Yemeni politician currently serving as the chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council since 7 April 2022.
Sultan Ali Al-Arada is a Yemeni politician and general who has served as one of the 8 members of the Presidential Leadership Council since 2022. The PLC is the internationally-recognized executive of Yemen. Arada concurrently serves as the governor of Marib Governorate,having held that role since 2012.
