Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed

[SoLongAtlas]

by Houthis, his guys until a few days ago when he turned against them. Breaking news https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/world/middleeast/saleh-yemen-houthis.html

Apparent confirmation of the body at https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/937657304127803396 Not for the faint of heart. GRAPHIC. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXw2S9dXvFw

Huge boon for the Saudis that a past pro-Iranian leader has been killed but also a huge loss considering that he called for a ceasefire (which probably got him killed).

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Not good: looks like all sides (up to and including the Trump admin) are purging the moderates.

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Not surprising in the end that the Houthi-Saleh alliance collapsed but wow. To be honest, I expected that the Saleh forces would win in Sanaa because they have better experience in urban warfare, the Houthis are much more rural mountain guerrilla focused. I wonder how the events in Sanaa actually started because the reports are still quite hazy and most reports are in Arabic anyway. I think this battle will hurt the Houthis in the long run because who knows where all those Saleh fighters will go. Either they will form an insurgency or fight on the Saudi side.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Huge boon for the Saudis that a past pro-Iranian leader has been killed but also a huge loss considering that he called for a ceasefire (which probably got him killed).

What got him killed was selling out to the people who bombed and starved his countrymen for two years. His faction had plenty of allies, both tribal and Yemeni military in position to intervene in Sanaa. None of them intervened to help him.

[RodPresident]

Former master of Yemen ended as a treacherous warlord.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

One switch too many.

[palandio]

So I post this here because I think that having all Yemen-related posts in one thread makes sense. Mods please intervene if you think otherwise.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42858270

It seems that Emirati-backed Southern Yemeni separatists (STC) have overthrown the Saudi-backed government whose seat was until now in Aden (not in the Houthi-held Yemeni capital Sanaa). And they were supposed to be allies... In the end it could even happen that Houthis and STC agree on the renewed partition into a Houthi dominated North and an STC dominated South, shutting out Hadi and the Saudis.

[America Needs R'hllor]

So I post this here because I think that having all Yemen-related posts in one thread makes sense. Mods please intervene if you think otherwise.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42858270

It seems that Emirati-backed Southern Yemeni separatists (STC) have overthrown the Saudi-backed government whose seat was until now in Aden (not in the Houthi-held Yemeni capital Sanaa). And they were supposed to be allies... In the end it could even happen that Houthis and STC agree on the renewed partition into a Houthi dominated North and an STC dominated South, shutting out Hadi and the Saudis.

I guess that'd be a generally alright compromise in this war-tormented country. Though, unfourtunately, I could never support an Irani occupation of the Bab-el-Mandeb.