The Yemeni Crisis: Structural Characteristics and Current Dynamics

... ultimately left the leadership of al-Islah by 2014, without its main social base—the Hashid tribal confederation, to which Saleh himself also belonged. The new alliance that emerged in 2014, bringing together the General People’s Congress (GPC) and the Ansar Allah movement—a coalition of “conservatives” and “revolutionaries”—delivered a political defeat to the Islah Party, whose spiritual leader regarded the revolution as a precursor to the impending caliphate. The “Peace and National ...