Regional Forces in Yemen and the Possible Balance of Power after Saleh’s Death
On 4 December 2017, former President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh was
assassinated
in his home country. His murder came after clashes in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a and a schism within the tactical alliance Ansar Allah (often termed “the Houthi movement” in the media) and supporters of Saleh,...
... ex-president had embarked upon a multi-dimensional game in a bid to not let power slip from his hands for good. When the Houthi entered Yemen’s capital on September 21, 2014, encountering almost no resistance,
many started to talk
about the loyalty of key Yemeni warlords to Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had for some reason become interested in a Houthi victory march across the entire country.
Indeed, it soon became clear that a strange alliance of the former adversaries had taken shape. But Ali Abdullah Saleh’s tactical allies,...