The Armed Forces of Yemen are the military forces of the Republic of Yemen. They include the Yemeni Army,Yemeni Navy and the Yemeni Air Force. The capital of the country,Sana’a is where the military is headquartered. Per the constitution of Yemen,the President of Yemen serves as the commander-in-chief.
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 Houthi insurgency in Yemen,also known as the Houthi rebellion,the Sa'dah War,or the Sa'dah conflict,was a military rebellion pitting Zaidi Shia Houthis against the Yemeni military that began in Northern Yemen and has since escalated into a full-scale civil war. The conflict was sparked in 2004 by the government's attempt to arrest Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi,a Zaidi religious leader of the Houthis and a former parliamentarian on whose head the government had placed a $55,000 bounty.
The Houthi movement,officially called Ansar Allah and colloquially simply Houthis,is an Islamist political and armed movement that emerged from Saada Governorate in North Yemen in the 1990s. The Houthi movement is a predominately Zaidi Shia force,whose leadership is drawn largely from the Houthi tribe.
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.
Abdul-Malik Badruldeen al-Houthi is a Yemeni politician and religious leader who serves as the leader of the Houthi movement,a revolutionary movement principally made up of Zaidi Muslims. His brothers Yahia and Abdul-Karim are also leaders of the group,as were his late brothers Hussein,Ibrahim,and Abdulkhaliq. Abdul-Malik Houthi is the leading figure in the Yemeni Civil War which started with the Houthi takeover in Yemen in the Saada Governorate in northern Yemen.
Fares Mohammed Manaa is a top Yemeni arms-dealer,businessman,rebel commander and politician. He is said to be Yemen's most famous arms-dealer. Manaa was born on February 8,1965 in the northern city of Saada. He was an ally of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and member of his ruling GPC party and served as head of his presidential committee and as head of a local council tasked with mediating a peace-deal between the Yemeni government and Houthis during the Shia insurgency in Yemen. His brother was the governor of Saada Governorate at the time.
The Houthi takeover in Yemen,also known as the September 21 Revolution,or 2014–15 coup d'état,was a popular revolution against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi led by the Houthis and their supporters that pushed the Yemeni government from power. It had origins in Houthi-led protests that began the previous month,and escalated when the Houthis stormed the Yemeni capital Sanaa on 21 September 2014,causing the resignation of Prime Minister Mohammed Basindawa,and later the resignation of President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi and his ministers on 22 January 2015 after Houthi forces seized the presidential palace,residence,and key military installations,and the formation of a ruling council by Houthi militants on 6 February 2015.
Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak is a Yemeni politician who is the current Foreign Minister of Yemen. He was previously the Ambassador of Yemen to the United States.
The Battle of Sanaa in 2014 marked the advance of the Houthis into Sanaa,the capital of Yemen,and heralded the beginning of the armed takeover of the government that unfolded over the following months. Fighting began on 9 September 2014,when pro-Houthi protesters under the command of Abdul-Malik al-Houthi marched on the cabinet office and were fired upon by security forces,leaving seven dead. The clashes escalated on 18 September,when 40 were killed in an armed confrontation between the Houthis led by military commander Mohammed Ali al-Houthi and supporters of the Sunni hardliner Islah Party when the Houthis tried to seize Yemen TV,and 19 September,with more than 60 killed in clashes between Houthi fighters and the military and police in northern Sanaa. By 21 September,the Houthis captured the government headquarters,marking the fall of Sanaa.
The Yemeni Civil War is an ongoing multilateral civil war that began in late 2014 mainly between the Rashad al-Alimi-led Yemeni government and the Houthi armed movement,along with their supporters and allies. Both claim to constitute the official government of Yemen.
On 26 March 2015,Saudi Arabia,leading a coalition of nine countries from West Asia and North Africa,launched an intervention in the Yemeni Civil War in response to calls from the president of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi for military support after he was ousted by the Houthi movement. The conflict ignited between the government forces,the Houthi rebels and other armed groups after the draft constitution and power-sharing arrangements collapsed,despite progress in the political transition led by the United Nations at that time,leading to an escalation of violence in mid-2014. The Houthis and allied units of the armed forces seized control of Sana’a and other parts of the country in September 2014 and in the following months. This prompted President Hadi to ask Saudi Arabia to intervene against the Iranian-backed Houthis.
The battle of 'Amran,refers to a battle that took place in the summer of 2014,between the Houthi Zaydi movement,and the Yemeni government of President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. The Houthis eventually won the battle,leading them to the capture of Sanaa.
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 10 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 of the former North Yemen,which united with South Yemen in 1990.
The following is a timeline of the Yemeni Civil War (2014–present),which began in September 2014.
The Battle of Sanaa (2017) was fought between forces loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Houthis in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a. Both sides were allied during the 2014–15 Houthi takeover of the government but the alliance ended when Saleh decided to break ranks with the Houthis and call for dialogue with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates,who are leading a military intervention in Yemen. Fighting then broke out between the Houthis and forces loyal to Saleh as the Saudi-led coalition began bombing Houthi areas,ultimately resulting in Saleh's death and a Houthi victory.
Events of 2020 in Yemen.
Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi is a Yemeni politician currently serving as the Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council since 7 April 2022.
The Shura Council or Consultative Council is the upper house of the parliament of Yemen,with the lower house being the House of Representatives. Unlike the House it does not take on a legislative role,instead primarily being charged with an advisory role to the president. Per the constitution it has 111 members who are appointed by the president. There currently exist two Shura Councils as a result of the civil war,one in Sanaa aligned with the Houthis,and one aligned with the Presidential Leadership Council in Aden.
Mohammed Abdullah al-Yadoumi is a Yemeni politician serving as chairman of Yemeni political Party of Islah since 6 January 2008. He previously served as an officer in the Yemen's interior ministry and intelligence agency. He is considered the most powerful political leader inside the Islah party.
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