Ali Abdullah Saleh

Saudi-led warplanes pounded the rebel-held Yemeni capital before dawn on Dec. 5 after the rebels killed former president Ali Abdullah Saleh as he fled the city following the collapse of their uneasy alliance, residents said.

The radio station of Yemen’s Houthi-run interior ministry said yesterday the militia’s former war ally turned adversary, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, had been killed as fighting racked the capital Sanaa though there was no independent confirmation.

The Saudi-led coalition launched air strikes on Yemen’s capital Sanaa overnight on Sunday, local media said, lending support to loyalists of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh after he signaled a strategy shift that could pave the way to end the war.

A rebel court in Yemen's insurgent-held capital has sentenced President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi to death for high treason in absentia, the rebel news agency has said.

Yemen yesterday marked the second anniversary of a Saudi-led coalition starting air strikes against the Huthi rebels in support of Hadi's government, after the insurgents overran the capital Sanaa.

The warring parties in Yemen have agreed to a 72-hour cease-fire that will take effect shortly before midnight on Oct. 19, the U.N. special envoy to Yemen said.
Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he hopes the temporary truce can lead to "permanent and lasting end to the conflict."

"They hit everything, hospitals, orphanages, schools," Hisham al-Omeisy told The Guardian newspaper six months ago. "You live in constant fear that your kids' school could be the next target."

Yemen's warring factions held their first direct talks in a U.N.-backed peace process on April 22 and will meet again despite failing to agree on an agenda, participants said.

The United Nations envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said the meetings in Kuwait had been constructive and the positive atmosphere was a step forward in efforts to end the conflict.

Turkey freezes assets of Yemeni ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, while the U.N.-backed peace talks to solve the armed clashes in Yemen, which were scheduled to start on April 21 after an initial postponement, was postponed once again. 

Turkey has frozen the assets of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in line with a decision by the UN Security Council, the government said in its Official Gazette on April 21. 

All of Saleh's assets in Turkish banks and other financial institutions, including safes, were frozen, it said. 

Peace talks in Kuwait aimed at ending over a year of civil war and a Saudi-led intervention in Yemen will not begin on April 18 as planned, officials from the warring sides said, amid objections over continued fighting despite an announced ceasefire.