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id="toc-International_reactions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#International_reactions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 International reactions </div> </a> <ul id="toc-International_reactions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Analysis" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Analysis"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Analysis </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Analysis-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Analysis subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Analysis-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Use_of_pink" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Use_of_pink"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Use of pink </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Use_of_pink-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Opposition_factions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Opposition_factions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Opposition factions </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Opposition_factions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Southern_groups" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Southern_groups"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.1 Southern groups </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Southern_groups-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Al_Qaeda" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Al_Qaeda"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.2 Al Qaeda </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Al_Qaeda-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Joint_Meeting_Parties" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Joint_Meeting_Parties"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.3 Joint Meeting Parties </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Joint_Meeting_Parties-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Alliance_of_Yemeni_Tribes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alliance_of_Yemeni_Tribes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.4 Alliance of Yemeni Tribes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alliance_of_Yemeni_Tribes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-National_Dialogue_Conference" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#National_Dialogue_Conference"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.5 National Dialogue Conference </div> </a> <ul id="toc-National_Dialogue_Conference-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Civil_Bloc" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Civil_Bloc"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.6 Civil Bloc </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Civil_Bloc-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 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lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Yəmən inqilabı" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8_(2011)" title="Йеменски протести (2011) – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Йеменски протести (2011)" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protesty_v_Jemenu_2011" title="Protesty v Jemenu 2011 – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Protesty v Jemenu 2011" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chwyldro_Iemen" title="Chwyldro Iemen – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Chwyldro Iemen" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteste_im_Jemen_2011" title="Proteste im Jemen 2011 – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Proteste im Jemen 2011" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%B7%CE%BB%CF%8E%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%82_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BD_%CE%A5%CE%B5%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B7_%CF%84%CE%BF_2011" title="Διαδηλώσεις στην Υεμένη το 2011 – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Διαδηλώσεις στην Υεμένη το 2011" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revoluci%C3%B3n_yemen%C3%AD" title="Revolución yemení – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Revolución yemení" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8_%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%86" title="انقلاب یمن – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="انقلاب یمن" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9volution_y%C3%A9m%C3%A9nite" title="Révolution yéménite – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Révolution yéménite" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%88%EB%A9%98_%ED%98%81%EB%AA%85" title="예멘 혁명 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="예멘 혁명" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%A5%D5%B2%D5%A1%D6%83%D5%B8%D5%AD%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6_%D4%B5%D5%B4%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B4_(2011%E2%80%942012)" title="Հեղափոխություն Եմենում (2011—2012) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Հեղափոխություն Եմենում (2011—2012)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolusi_Yaman" title="Revolusi Yaman – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Revolusi Yaman" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivolta_yemenita" title="Rivolta yemenita – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Rivolta yemenita" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%9F_(2011)" title="ההפיכה בתימן (2011) – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ההפיכה בתימן (2011)" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%98%E1%83%94%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%A3%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="იემენის რევოლუცია – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="იემენის რევოლუცია" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012-es_jemeni_forradalom" title="2011–2012-es jemeni forradalom – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="2011–2012-es jemeni forradalom" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolusi_Yaman" title="Revolusi Yaman – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Revolusi Yaman" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protesten_in_Jemen_(2011-2012)" title="Protesten in Jemen (2011-2012) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Protesten in Jemen (2011-2012)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E5%B9%B4%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A8%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E9%A8%92%E4%B9%B1" title="2011年イエメン騒乱 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="2011年イエメン騒乱" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_jemenittiske_revolusjon" title="Den jemenittiske revolusjon – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Den jemenittiske revolusjon" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamandagi_inqilob_(2011-2012)" title="Yamandagi inqilob (2011-2012) – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Yamandagi inqilob (2011-2012)" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF_%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8" title="د یمن انقلاب – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="د یمن انقلاب" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target">پښتو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewolucja_w_Jemenie" title="Rewolucja w Jemenie – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Rewolucja w Jemenie" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolu%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Iemenita" title="Revolução Iemenita – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Revolução Iemenita" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolu%C8%9Bia_din_Yemen" title="Revoluția din Yemen – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Revoluția din Yemen" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%B2_%D0%99%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5_(2011%E2%80%942012)" title="Революция в Йемене (2011—2012) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Революция в Йемене (2011—2012)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_revolution" title="Yemeni revolution – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Yemeni revolution" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a 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.infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent" style="width:25.5em;border-spacing: 2px;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="background-color:#CEE0F2;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Yemeni revolution</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="background-color:#eeeeee;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;">Part of the <a href="/wiki/Arab_Spring" title="Arab Spring">Arab Spring</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_crisis_(2011%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemeni crisis (2011–present)">Yemeni Crisis</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" 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/></a><div class="infobox-caption" style="padding:0.35em 0.35em 0.25em;line-height:1.25em;">Tens of thousands of protesters marching to <a href="/wiki/Sana%27a_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Sana'a University">Sana'a University</a>, joined for the first time by opposition parties</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Date</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">27 January 2011 (2011-01-27) – 27 February 2012 (2012-02-27) (1 year and 1 month)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="display:inline;" class="location"><a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Caused by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">Dictatorship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">Authoritarianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unemployment" title="Unemployment">Unemployment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">Poverty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Yemen" title="Economy of Yemen">Economic conditions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_corruption" title="Political corruption">Political corruption</a><a href="#cite_note-People_are_fed_up-1">[1]</a></li> <li>Government's proposals to modify the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Yemen" title="Constitution of Yemen">Constitution of Yemen</a> to make Saleh <a href="/wiki/President_for_life" title="President for life">president for life</a><a href="#cite_note-afreuters-2">[2]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights#Violations" title="Human rights">Human rights violations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab_Spring" title="Arab Spring">Inspiration from concurrent regional protests</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Methods</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Civil_disobedience" title="Civil disobedience">Civil disobedience</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_resistance" title="Civil resistance">Civil resistance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demonstration_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Demonstration (people)">Demonstrations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riot" title="Riot">Riots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-immolation" title="Self-immolation">Self-immolations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strike_action" title="Strike action">Strike actions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mutiny" title="Mutiny">Mutiny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Defection" title="Defection">Defection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insurgency" title="Insurgency">Insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Non-violent_revolutions" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-violent revolutions">Non-violent revolutions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Defection" title="Defection">Army defections</a></li> <li>Armed confrontations between <a href="/wiki/Hashid" title="Hashid">Hashid</a> militiamen and loyalist soldiers.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Media" class="mw-redirect" title="Social Media">Social Media</a> activism</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Resulted in</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Overthrow of <a href="/wiki/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh" title="Ali Abdullah Saleh">Saleh government</a> <ul><li>Resignation of Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Ali_Muhammad_Mujawar" title="Ali Muhammad Mujawar">Mujawar</a></li> <li>Resignation of MPs from the <a href="/wiki/General_People%27s_Congress_(Yemen)" title="General People's Congress (Yemen)">ruling party</a><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></li> <li>Occupation of several regions and cities in Yemen by <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a> and <a href="/wiki/Houthi" class="mw-redirect" title="Houthi">Houthi</a> rebels</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_the_Arabian_Peninsula" title="Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula">AQAP</a> declares the Islamic Emirate in Yemen</li> <li>Restructure of the <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Yemen">military forces</a> by sacking several of its leaders<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></li> <li>Approval of President's immunity from prosecution by Yemeni legislators<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></li> <li>One candidate <a href="/wiki/2012_Yemeni_presidential_election" title="2012 Yemeni presidential election">Presidential election</a> held to replace Saleh as the new president of Yemen; <a href="/wiki/Abdrabbuh_Mansur_Hadi" title="Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi">Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi</a> elected and inaugurated</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#CEE0F2;">Parties</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><table style="width:100%; border-spacing:0; margin:0; text-align:left; display:inline-table;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:50%;"><div> <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen"><img alt="Yemen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> Opposition: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joint_Meeting_Parties" class="mw-redirect" title="Joint Meeting Parties">Joint Meeting Parties</a><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Logo_of_the_Yemeni_Congregation_for_Reform_%28al-Islah%29.svg/16px-Logo_of_the_Yemeni_Congregation_for_Reform_%28al-Islah%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Logo_of_the_Yemeni_Congregation_for_Reform_%28al-Islah%29.svg/25px-Logo_of_the_Yemeni_Congregation_for_Reform_%28al-Islah%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Logo_of_the_Yemeni_Congregation_for_Reform_%28al-Islah%29.svg/33px-Logo_of_the_Yemeni_Congregation_for_Reform_%28al-Islah%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="332" data-file-height="304" /> <a href="/wiki/Al-Islah_(Yemen)" title="Al-Islah (Yemen)">Al-Islah</a><a href="#cite_note-brotherhood-7">[7]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Yemeni_Socialist_Party_Flag.svg/23px-Yemeni_Socialist_Party_Flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Yemeni_Socialist_Party_Flag.svg/35px-Yemeni_Socialist_Party_Flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Yemeni_Socialist_Party_Flag.svg/45px-Yemeni_Socialist_Party_Flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Socialist_Party" title="Yemeni Socialist Party">Yemeni Socialist Party</a><a href="#cite_note-brotherhood-7">[7]</a></li></ul></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /> <a href="/wiki/Southern_Movement" title="Southern Movement">Southern Movement</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_Movement.svg/10px-Slogan_of_the_Houthi_Movement.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_Movement.svg/16px-Slogan_of_the_Houthi_Movement.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_Movement.svg/21px-Slogan_of_the_Houthi_Movement.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1180" data-file-height="1668" /> <a href="/wiki/Houthis" class="mw-redirect" title="Houthis">Houthis</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Student_activism" title="Student activism">Student activists</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hashid" title="Hashid">Hashid</a><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alliance_of_Yemeni_Tribes" title="Alliance of Yemeni Tribes">Alliance of Yemeni Tribes</a><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></li> <li>Defected soldiers<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></li> <li>Civil Bloc<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></li> <li>National Dialogue Committee<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></li></ul></div></td> <td style="width:50%; padding-left:0.25em; border-left:1px dotted #aaa"><div> <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen"><img alt="Yemen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> Government: <ul><li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/General_People%27s_Congress_flag.svg/23px-General_People%27s_Congress_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/General_People%27s_Congress_flag.svg/35px-General_People%27s_Congress_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/General_People%27s_Congress_flag.svg/45px-General_People%27s_Congress_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1594" data-file-height="1063" /> <a href="/wiki/General_People%27s_Congress_(Yemen)" title="General People's Congress (Yemen)">General People's Congress</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Army.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Army.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Army.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Army.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Army.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Army.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Yemen_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemen Army">Yemen Army</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Interior_Ministry.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Interior_Ministry.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Interior_Ministry.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Interior_Ministry.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Interior_Ministry.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Interior_Ministry.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Yemen" title="Law enforcement in Yemen">Yemeni Police Force</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Central_Security_Organization.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Central_Security_Organization.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Central_Security_Organization.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Central_Security_Organization.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Central_Security_Organization.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Central_Security_Organization.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Special_Security_Forces_(Yemen)" title="Special Security Forces (Yemen)">Central Security Organization</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Yemeni_Republican_Guard_Flag.svg/23px-Yemeni_Republican_Guard_Flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Yemeni_Republican_Guard_Flag.svg/35px-Yemeni_Republican_Guard_Flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Yemeni_Republican_Guard_Flag.svg/45px-Yemeni_Republican_Guard_Flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Republican_Guard_(Yemen)" title="Republican Guard (Yemen)">Republican Guards</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Air_Force.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Air_Force.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Air_Force.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Air_Force.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Air_Force.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Yemeni_Air_Force.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Air_Force" title="Yemeni Air Force">Yemeni Air Force</a></li> <li>Pro-Government Tribes</li></ul></div></td> </tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#CEE0F2;">Lead figures</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244901718">.mw-parser-output .infobox-columns{display:flex}.mw-parser-output .infobox .infobox-columns-text-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .infobox-columns>div{box-sizing:border-box;width:50%;padding:2px}.mw-parser-output .infobox-columns-3>div{width:33.33%}.mw-parser-output .infobox-columns-4>div{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .infobox-columns>div:not(:first-child){border-left:1px dotted #aaa;padding-left:5px}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist infobox-columns infobox-columns-2 infobox-columns-text-left"> <div> <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen"><img alt="Yemen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Sadiq_al-Ahmar" title="Sadiq al-Ahmar">Sadiq al-Ahmar</a> <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen"><img alt="Yemen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Ali_Mohsen_al-Ahmar" title="Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar">Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar</a> <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen"><img alt="Yemen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Hameed_Al-Qushaibi" title="Hameed Al-Qushaibi">Hameed Al-Qushaibi</a> <a href="/wiki/South_Yemen" title="South Yemen"><img alt="South Yemen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Ali_Salem_al_Beidh" class="mw-redirect" title="Ali Salem al Beidh">Ali Salem al Beidh </a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_Movement.svg/10px-Slogan_of_the_Houthi_Movement.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_Movement.svg/16px-Slogan_of_the_Houthi_Movement.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_Movement.svg/21px-Slogan_of_the_Houthi_Movement.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1180" data-file-height="1668" /> <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Malik_al-Houthi" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Malik al-Houthi">Abdul Malik al-Houthi</a> </div> <div> <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen"><img alt="Yemen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh" title="Ali Abdullah Saleh">Ali Abdullah Saleh</a> <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen"><img alt="Yemen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Abdrabbuh_Mansour_Hadi" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi">Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi</a> <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen"><img alt="Yemen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Saleh" title="Ahmed Saleh">Ahmed Saleh</a> <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen"><img alt="Yemen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Aziz_Abdul_Ghani" title="Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani">Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani</a> <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen"><img alt="Yemen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> Ahmed bin Saeed <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen"><img alt="Yemen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_Yemen.svg/45px-Flag_of_Yemen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> Ali Nasser Gatami <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">†</a> </div> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#CEE0F2;">Casualties</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Death(s)</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">2,000 (by 18 March 2012)<a href="#cite_note-2,000killed-16">[16]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Injuries</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">22,000<a href="#cite_note-2,000killed-16">[16]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Arrested</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">1,000<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline 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href="/wiki/South_Yemen_insurgency" title="South Yemen insurgency">South Yemen insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen" title="Houthi takeover in Yemen">Houthi takeover in Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen" title="Aftermath of the Houthi takeover in Yemen">Aftermath of the Houthi takeover in Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="Yemeni civil war (2014–present)">Yemeni civil war (2014–present)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saudi-led_intervention_in_the_Yemeni_civil_war" title="Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war">Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Yemen" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="padding-bottom:0;border-bottom:1px solid 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title="Timeline of the Yemeni revolution (January – 27 February 2012)">Jan – Feb</a></dd></dl> <hr /> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Saada" title="Battle of Saada">Saada</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sanaa_(2011)" title="Battle of Sanaa (2011)">Sanaa</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Taiz" title="Battle of Taiz">Taiz</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Dammaj" title="Siege of Dammaj">Dammaj</a></dd></dl></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Yemeni_crisis" style="margin:0;float:right;clear:right;width:25.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:1em;;padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks navbox-vertical mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th 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href="/wiki/Siege_of_Dammaj" title="Siege of Dammaj">Dammaj</a></li></ul> <hr /> <a href="/wiki/Ansar_al-Sharia_(Yemen)" title="Ansar al-Sharia (Yemen)">Ansar al-Shariah campaign (2011–14)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Zinjibar" title="Battle of Zinjibar">Zinjibar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dofas" title="Battle of Dofas">Dofas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Abyan_offensive" title="2012 Abyan offensive">Abyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Sanaa_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2012 Sanaa bombing">2012 Sana'a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Radda" title="Battle of Radda">Radda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Sanaa_shootings" title="2013 Sanaa shootings">Nov 2013 Sanaa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Sanaa_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2013 Sanaa attack">Dec 2013 Sana'a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_hostage_rescue_operations_in_Yemen" title="2014 hostage rescue operations in Yemen">Rescue operations</a></li></ul> <hr /> <a 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Sana'a</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Rada%27a&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Battle of Rada'a (page does not exist)">Rada'a</a> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9_%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B9_(2014)" class="extiw" title="ar:معركة رداع (2014)">ar</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen" title="Houthi takeover in Yemen">Houthi takeover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shabwah_Governorate_offensive" title="Shabwah Governorate offensive">1st Shabwah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saudi-led_intervention_in_the_Yemeni_civil_war" title="Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war">Saudi-led intervention</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Houthi%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabian_conflict" title="Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict">Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Taiz" title="Siege of Taiz">Taiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marib_campaign" title="Marib campaign">Marib governorate</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Marib" title="Battle of Marib">Marib city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dhale" title="Battle of Dhale">Dhale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aden_unrest_(2015%E2%80%932019)" title="Aden unrest (2015–2019)">Aden</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aden_Airport" title="Battle of Aden Airport">airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aden_(2015)" title="Battle of Aden (2015)">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aden_(2018)" title="Battle of Aden (2018)">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Yemen_clashes" title="Southern Yemen clashes">2019</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abyan_conflict" title="Abyan conflict">Abyan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abyan_campaign" title="Abyan campaign">2015 campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Abyan_Offensive_(2016)" title="Southern Abyan Offensive (2016)">2016 southern offensive</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lahij_insurgency" title="Lahij insurgency">Lahij</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shabwah_campaign" title="Shabwah campaign">2015 Shabwah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mukalla_(2015)" title="Battle of Mukalla (2015)">2015 Mukalla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Zinjibar_and_Jaar" title="Fall of Zinjibar and Jaar">Zinjibar and Jaar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nihm_Offensive" title="Nihm Offensive">Nihm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Port_Midi" title="Battle of Port Midi">Port Midi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadramaut_insurgency" title="Hadramaut insurgency">Hadramaut</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Al_Masini_valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Al Masini valley">Al Masini</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mukalla_(2016)" title="Battle of Mukalla (2016)">Battle of Mukalla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2016_Mukalla_attacks" title="June 2016 Mukalla attacks">June 2016 Mukalla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sanaa_(2017)" title="Battle of Sanaa (2017)">2017 Battle of Sana'a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Hudaydah_offensive" title="Al Hudaydah offensive">Al Hudaydah</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Al_Hudaydah" title="Battle of Al Hudaydah">Al Hudaydah city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Al_Masini_valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Al Masini valley">Masini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates_takeover_of_Socotra" class="mw-redirect" title="United Arab Emirates takeover of Socotra">Takeover of Socotra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Victory_from_God" title="Operation Victory from God">Victory from God</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Jabara_Valley" title="Battle of the Jabara Valley">Jabara</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Jawf_offensive" title="Al-Jawf offensive">Al-Jawf offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Bayda_offensive" title="Al Bayda offensive">Al Bayda offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Southern_Yemen_offensive" title="2022 Southern Yemen offensive">2022 Southern Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Prosperity_Guardian" title="Operation Prosperity Guardian">Operation Prosperity Guardian</a></li></ul> Bombings and terrorist attacks in Yemen <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2014_Radda_bombings" title="2014 Radda bombings">Radda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Ibb_bombing" title="2014 Ibb bombing">Ibb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2015_Sanaa_bombing" title="January 2015 Sanaa bombing">Jan 2015 Sana'a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2015_Sanaa_mosque_bombings" title="March 2015 Sanaa mosque bombings">Mar 2015 Sana'a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2015_Sanaa_mosque_bombing" title="September 2015 Sanaa mosque bombing">Sep 2015 Sana'a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_2015_Aden_missile_attack" title="October 2015 Aden missile attack">Oct 2015 Aden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Aden_car_bombing" title="2015 Aden car bombing">Dec 2015 Aden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Missionaries_of_Charity_attack_in_Aden" title="Missionaries of Charity attack in Aden">4 Mar 2016 Aden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Aden_car_bombing" title="2016 Aden car bombing">25 Mar 2016 Aden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2016_Yemen_police_bombings" title="May 2016 Yemen police bombings">May 2016 Mukalla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/23_May_2016_Yemen_bombings" title="23 May 2016 Yemen bombings">May 2016 Aden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2016_Aden_bombing" title="August 2016 Aden bombing">Aug 2016 Aden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2016_Aden_suicide_bombings" title="December 2016 Aden suicide bombings">Dec 2016 Aden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Thabet_Gawas" title="Assassination of Thabet Gawas">Mar 2022 Aden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_al-Bayda_bombing" title="2024 al-Bayda bombing">Mar 2024 al-Bayda</a></li></ul> Houthi missile and drone attacks in Yemen <ul><li><a href="/wiki/September_2015_Marib_Tochka_missile_attack" title="September 2015 Marib Tochka missile attack">2015 Marib</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2015_Taiz_missile_attack" title="December 2015 Taiz missile attack">2015 Taiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Al_Anad_Air_Base_missile_attack" title="2016 Al Anad Air Base missile attack">2016 al-Anad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anad_base_drone_strike" class="mw-redirect" title="Anad base drone strike">2019 al-Anad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munir_Al_Yafi" title="Munir Al Yafi">Aug 2019 Aden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2020_Marib_attack" title="January 2020 Marib attack">Jan 2020 Marib</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2020_Marib_attack" title="August 2020 Marib attack">Aug 2020 Marib</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Aden_airport_attack" title="2020 Aden airport attack">Dec 2020 Aden airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marib_petrol_station_attack" title="Marib petrol station attack">2021 Marib</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Anad_airbase_attack" title="2021 Anad airbase attack">2021 al-Anad</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2017_United_States%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_arms_deal" title="2017 United States–Saudi Arabia arms deal">US–Saudi arms deal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_peace_process" title="Yemeni peace process">Peace process</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-vertical hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;margin:0;float:right;clear:right;width:25em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div id="Saudi-led_intervention_(2015–present)" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabian-led_intervention_in_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen">Saudi-led intervention (2015–present)</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">Saudi Arabian airstrikes on Yemen <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Mokha" title="Bombing of Mokha">Mokha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanaa_funeral_airstrike" title="Sanaa funeral airstrike">Sana'a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hajjah_Governorate_airstrike" title="Hajjah Governorate airstrike">Hajjah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dahyan_air_strike" title="Dahyan air strike">Dahyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhamar_airstrike" title="Dhamar airstrike">Dhamar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saada_prison_airstrike" title="Saada prison airstrike">Saada</a></li></ul> <a href="/wiki/Houthi%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabian_conflict" title="Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict">Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2018_Riyadh_missile_strike" title="2018 Riyadh missile strike">2018 Riyadh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abha_International_Airport_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Abha International Airport attacks">Abha Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_attack" title="Abqaiq–Khurais attack">Abqaiq–Khurais</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Riyadh_drone_and_missile_attack" title="2020 Riyadh drone and missile attack">2020 Riyadh</a></li></ul> <a href="/wiki/Saudi-led_intervention_in_the_Yemeni_civil_war" title="Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war">Houthi attacks on the United Arab Emirates</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2022_Abu_Dhabi_attack" title="2022 Abu Dhabi attack">2022 Abu Dhabi</a></li></ul> <hr /> U.S. raids on <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_the_Arabian_Peninsula" title="Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula">al-Qaeda</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Yakla" title="Raid on Yakla">Yakla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Al_Hathla" title="Raid on Al Hathla">Hathla</a></li></ul> <hr /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-vertical hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;margin:0;float:right;clear:right;width:25em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div id="Red_Sea_crisis(2023–present)" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Red_Sea_crisis" title="Red Sea crisis">Red Sea crisis (2023–present)</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Red_Sea_crisis" title="Timeline of the Red Sea crisis">Timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_battle_of_the_Red_Sea_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of battle of the Red Sea crisis">Order of battle</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">Attacks <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Galaxy_Leader#Hijacking_in_2023" title="Galaxy Leader">Hijacking of the Galaxy Leader</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attacks_on_the_MV_Maersk_Hangzhou" title="Attacks on the MV Maersk Hangzhou">Attacks on the MV Maersk Hangzhou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marlin_Luanda_missile_strike" title="Marlin Luanda missile strike">Marlin Luanda missile strike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinking_of_the_MV_Rubymar" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinking of the MV Rubymar">Sinking of the MV Rubymar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MV_True_Confidence#Attack" title="MV True Confidence">Attack on the MV True Confidence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attacks_on_the_MV_Tutor" title="Attacks on the MV Tutor">Attacks on the MV Tutor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Houthi_drone_attack_on_Israel" title="2024 Houthi drone attack on Israel">2024 Houthi drone attack on Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attacks_on_the_Sounion" title="Attacks on the Sounion">Attacks on the Sounion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attacks_on_the_MV_Maersk_Hangzhou" title="Attacks on the MV Maersk Hangzhou">Attacks on the MV Maersk Hangzhou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Tel_Aviv_drone_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2024 Tel Aviv drone attack">2024 Tel Aviv drone attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20_July_2024_Israeli_attack_on_Yemen" title="20 July 2024 Israeli attack on Yemen">20 July 2024 Israeli attack on Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/29_September_2024_Israeli_attacks_on_Yemen" title="29 September 2024 Israeli attacks on Yemen">29 September 2024 Israeli attacks on Yemen</a></li></ul> Military operations <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Prosperity_Guardian" title="Operation Prosperity Guardian">Operation Prosperity Guardian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Aspides" title="Operation Aspides">Operation Aspides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_missile_strikes_in_Yemen" title="2024 missile strikes in Yemen">Operation Poseidon Archer</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/30_May_2024_Yemen_strikes" title="30 May 2024 Yemen strikes">30 May 2024 Yemen strikes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Israeli_strikes_on_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen">Operation Outstretched Arm</a></li></ul> Diplomacy <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2722" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 2722">United Nations Security Council Resolution 2722</a></li></ul> Effects <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_Red_Sea_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental impact of the Red Sea crisis">Environmental impact</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-vertical hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;margin:0;float:right;clear:right;width:25em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div id="Humanitarian_crisis" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Humanitarian crisis</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <li><a href="/wiki/Blockade_of_Yemen" title="Blockade of Yemen">Blockade</a></li> <li>Disease outbreaks <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2016%E2%80%932022_Yemen_cholera_outbreak" title="2016–2022 Yemen cholera outbreak">Cholera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Yemen" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen">COVID-19</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Famine_in_Yemen_(2016%E2%80%93present)" title="Famine in Yemen (2016–present)">Famine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%932022_locust_infestation" title="2019–2022 locust infestation">Locust infestation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Refugees_on_Jeju_Island" title="Refugees on Jeju Island">Refugees on Jeju Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="War crimes in the Yemeni civil war (2014–present)">War crimes and human rights violations</a></li> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> The Yemeni revolution (or Yemeni <a href="/wiki/Intifada" title="Intifada">intifada</a>)<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> followed the initial stages of the <a href="/wiki/Tunisian_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Tunisian Revolution">Tunisian Revolution</a> and occurred simultaneously with the <a href="/wiki/2011_Egyptian_revolution" title="2011 Egyptian revolution">2011 Egyptian revolution</a><a href="#cite_note-Thousands_call-19">[19]</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Arab_Spring" title="Arab Spring">Arab Spring protests</a> in the Middle East and North Africa. In its early phase, protests in <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a> were initially against unemployment, economic conditions<a href="#cite_note-afreuters-2">[2]</a> and corruption,<a href="#cite_note-People_are_fed_up-1">[1]</a> as well as against the government's proposals to modify <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Yemen" title="Constitution of Yemen">Yemen's constitution</a>. The protesters' demands then escalated to calls for the resignation of <a href="/wiki/President_of_Yemen" title="President of Yemen">Yemeni President</a> <a href="/wiki/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh" title="Ali Abdullah Saleh">Ali Abdullah Saleh</a>. Mass defections from the military, as well as from Saleh's government, effectively rendered much of the country outside of the government's control, and protesters vowed to defy its authority. A major demonstration of over 16,000 protesters took place in <a href="/wiki/Sana%27a" class="mw-redirect" title="Sana'a">Sanaʽa</a>, Yemen's capital, on 27 January.<a href="#cite_note-Irish_Times_breaking26-20">[20]</a> On 2 February, Saleh announced he would not run for reelection in 2013 and that he would not pass power to his son. On 3 February, 20,000 people protested against the government in Sanaʽa,<a href="#cite_note-latimes_3feb_20k-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-bbc_20k-22">[22]</a> while others protested in <a href="/wiki/Aden" title="Aden">Aden</a>,<a href="#cite_note-aljaz_aden-23">[23]</a> a southern Yemeni seaport city, in a "Day of Rage" called for by <a href="/wiki/Tawakel_Karman" class="mw-redirect" title="Tawakel Karman">Tawakel Karman</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Feb3_DayRage_aljaz-24">[24]</a> while soldiers, armed members of the <a href="/wiki/General_People%27s_Congress_(Yemen)" title="General People's Congress (Yemen)">General People's Congress</a> and many protesters held a pro-government rally in Sanaʽa.<a href="#cite_note-oneindia_armedGPC_progov-25">[25]</a> In a "Friday of Anger" on 18 February, tens of thousands of Yemenis took part in anti-government demonstrations in <a href="/wiki/Taiz" title="Taiz">Taiz</a>, Sanaʽa and Aden. On a "Friday of No Return" on 11 March, protesters called for Saleh's ousting in Sanaʽa where three people were killed. More protests were held in other cities, including <a href="/wiki/Mukalla" title="Mukalla">Mukalla</a>, where one person was killed. On 18 March, protesters in Sanaʽa were fired upon, resulting in 52 deaths and ultimately culminating in mass defections and resignations.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> Starting in late April, Saleh agreed to a <a href="/wiki/Gulf_Cooperation_Council" title="Gulf Cooperation Council">Gulf Cooperation Council</a>-brokered deal, only to back away hours before the scheduled signing three times. After the third time, on 22 May, the GCC declared it was suspending its efforts to mediate in Yemen.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> On 23 May, a day after Saleh refused to sign the transition agreement, Sheikh <a href="/wiki/Sadiq_al-Ahmar" title="Sadiq al-Ahmar">Sadiq al-Ahmar</a>, the head of the <a href="/wiki/Hashid" title="Hashid">Hashid</a> tribal federation, one of the most powerful tribes in the country, declared support for the opposition and his armed supporters came into conflict with loyalist security forces in the capital Sanaʽa. Heavy street fighting ensued, which included artillery and mortar shelling.<a href="#cite_note-570news-28">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-cnn.com-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-alternet.org-30">[30]</a> Saleh and several others were injured and at least five people were killed by a 3 June bombing of the presidential compound when an explosion ripped through a mosque used by high-level government officials for prayer services.<a href="#cite_note-palaceshell-31">[31]</a> Reports conflicted as to whether the attack was caused by shelling or a planted bomb.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> The next day, Vice President <a href="/wiki/Abdrabbuh_Mansur_Hadi" title="Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi">Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi</a> took over as acting president<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> while Saleh flew to <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> to be treated. The crowds celebrated Saleh's transfer of power, but Yemeni officials insisted that Saleh's absence was temporary and he would soon return to Yemen to resume his duties of office.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> In early July the government rejected the opposition's demands, including the formation of a transitional council with the goal of formally transferring power from the current administration to a <a href="/wiki/Caretaker_government" title="Caretaker government">caretaker government</a> intended to oversee Yemen's first-ever democratic elections. In response, factions of the opposition announced the formation of their own 17-member transitional council on 16 July, though the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Meeting_Parties" class="mw-redirect" title="Joint Meeting Parties">Joint Meeting Parties</a> that have functioned as an umbrella for many of the Yemeni opposition groups during the uprising said the council did not represent them and did not match their "plan" for the country.<a href="#cite_note-reuters.com-35">[35]</a> On 23 November, Saleh signed a power-transfer agreement brokered by the Gulf Cooperation Council in <a href="/wiki/Riyadh" title="Riyadh">Riyadh</a>, under which he would transfer his power to his vice-president, <a href="/wiki/Abdrabbuh_Mansur_Hadi" title="Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi">Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi</a>, within 30 days and leave his post as president by February 2012, in exchange for immunity from prosecution.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> Although the GCC deal was accepted by the JMP, it was rejected by many of the protesters and the <a href="/wiki/Houthis" class="mw-redirect" title="Houthis">Houthis</a>.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> A <a href="/wiki/2012_Yemeni_presidential_election" title="2012 Yemeni presidential election">presidential election</a> was held in <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a> on 21 February 2012, with Hadi running unopposed. A report claims that the election had a 65% turnout, with Hadi receiving 99.8% of the vote. Hadi took the oath of office in Yemen's parliament on 25 February 2012. Saleh returned home on the same day to attend Hadi's inauguration.<a href="#cite_note-nytnewpres-40">[40]</a> After months of protests, Saleh resigned from the presidency on 27 February 2012 and formally transferred power to his successor, marking the end of his 33-year rule.<a href="#cite_note-google.com-41">[41]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(1994)" title="Yemeni civil war (1994)">Yemeni civil war (1994)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ali_Abdullah_Saleh_2004.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh_2004.jpg/220px-Ali_Abdullah_Saleh_2004.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh_2004.jpg/330px-Ali_Abdullah_Saleh_2004.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh_2004.jpg/440px-Ali_Abdullah_Saleh_2004.jpg 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="750" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh" title="Ali Abdullah Saleh">Ali Abdullah Saleh</a> had been <a href="/wiki/President_of_Yemen" title="President of Yemen">President of Yemen</a> from 1990 to 2012, and President of <a href="/wiki/Yemen_Arab_Republic" title="Yemen Arab Republic">North Yemen</a> from 1978 to 1990</figcaption></figure> In 2010, Yemen had the fourth lowest <a href="/wiki/Human_Development_Index" title="Human Development Index">Human Development Index</a> rating in the <a href="/wiki/Arab_world" title="Arab world">Arab world</a> after <a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Djibouti" title="Djibouti">Djibouti</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mauritania" title="Mauritania">Mauritania</a>.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> It was also facing a <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_al-Qaeda_crackdown" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown">conflict</a> with <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_the_Arabian_Peninsula" title="Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula">al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula</a>, as well as a revolt from <a href="/wiki/South_Yemen_insurgency" title="South Yemen insurgency">South Yemen secessionists</a>,<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> who wanted to see the old <a href="/wiki/South_Yemen" title="South Yemen">South Yemen</a> reconstituted. In addition, there was a <a href="/wiki/Shia_insurgency_in_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Shia insurgency in Yemen">Shia rebellion</a> by <a href="/wiki/Zaidiyyah" class="mw-redirect" title="Zaidiyyah">Zaidi</a> rebels, known as the <a href="/wiki/Houthis" class="mw-redirect" title="Houthis">Houthis</a>. Peaceful protests and rioting occurred against food prices in March-April; 1 died from wounds during clashes and tank fire. In October-December 2007, a series of nationwide opposition rallies occurred. Mass opposition demonstrations occurred between November 2008-December 2009. Before his ouster, <a href="/wiki/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh" title="Ali Abdullah Saleh">Ali Abdullah Saleh</a> had been Yemen's president for more than 30 years,<a href="#cite_note-Thousands_call-19">[19]</a> and many believed his son <a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Saleh" title="Ahmed Saleh">Ahmed Saleh</a> was being groomed to eventually <a href="/wiki/Dynasty" title="Dynasty">replace</a> him.<a href="#cite_note-Abigail_Fielding-Smith-44">[44]</a> Almost half of the population of Yemen lives below the poverty line, and one-third suffer from chronic hunger.<a href="#cite_note-cia-45">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-tom_finn-46">[46]</a> Yemen ranks 146th in the <a href="/wiki/Transparency_International" title="Transparency International">Transparency International</a> 2010 <a href="/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index" title="Corruption Perceptions Index">Corruption Perceptions Index</a>,<a href="#cite_note-2010_Corruption_Perceptions_Index-47">[47]</a> and 8th in the 2012 <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Failed_States_Index" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries by Failed States Index">Failed States Index</a><a href="#cite_note-Failed_States_2011-48">[48]</a> (up two places from 2010).<a href="#cite_note-Failed_States_List_2012-49">[49]</a> A draft amendment to the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Yemen" title="Constitution of Yemen">constitution of Yemen</a> was under discussion in parliament despite opposition protests. The amendment seeks to allow Saleh to remain in the office of president for life. He urged the opposition to take part in an election on 27 April to avoid "political suicide." The current parliament's mandate was extended by two years after an agreement in February 2009 agreement the ruling <a href="/wiki/General_People%27s_Congress_(Yemen)" title="General People's Congress (Yemen)">General People's Congress</a> and opposition parties seeking a dialogue on political reforms such as: moving from a presidential system to a proportional representation parliamentary system and a more <a href="/wiki/Federalism" title="Federalism">decentralised</a> government. Neither measure has been implemented.<a href="#cite_note-aljaz_karman_detained-50">[50]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Timeline">Timeline</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Timeline">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Yemeni_revolution" title="Timeline of the Yemeni revolution">Timeline of the Yemeni revolution</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Protests">Protests</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Protests">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yemen_Protests_21-Feb-2011_P01.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Yemen_Protests_21-Feb-2011_P01.JPG/220px-Yemen_Protests_21-Feb-2011_P01.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Yemen_Protests_21-Feb-2011_P01.JPG/330px-Yemen_Protests_21-Feb-2011_P01.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Yemen_Protests_21-Feb-2011_P01.JPG/440px-Yemen_Protests_21-Feb-2011_P01.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1824" data-file-height="1368" /></a><figcaption>Some of the Yemeni protestors at <a href="/wiki/Sanaa_University" title="Sanaa University">Sanaa University</a> demanding the dissolution of the current ruling party and calling on the president to resign.</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kZ4x3-oogY">Raw Video: Yemeni Forces Open Fire on Protesters</a> on <a href="/wiki/YouTube_video_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="YouTube video (identifier)">YouTube</a></td></tr></tbody></table> In January 2011, shortly after the <a href="/wiki/Tunisian_revolution" title="Tunisian revolution">popular ouster</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisian</a> government, major street protests materialized in <a href="/wiki/Sana%27a" class="mw-redirect" title="Sana'a">Sanaʽa</a>, the Yemeni capital, to demand governmental changes.<a href="#cite_note-NADA_BAKRI-51">[51]</a> Protests spread to the traditionally restive south, with particularly aggressive protests in cities like <a href="/wiki/Aden" title="Aden">Aden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ta%27izz" class="mw-redirect" title="Ta'izz">Ta'izz</a>.<a href="#cite_note-NADA_BAKRI-51">[51]</a> Initially, demonstrators protested against a plan to amend the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Yemen" title="Constitution of Yemen">constitution</a> and over the country's sluggish economy and high jobless rates.<a href="#cite_note-afreuters-2">[2]</a> However, protests grew larger by late January and took on an increasingly pointed tone of criticism toward President <a href="/wiki/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh" title="Ali Abdullah Saleh">Ali Abdullah Saleh</a>, with many demonstrators beginning to call openly for new leadership in <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Irish_Times_breaking26-20">[20]</a> including at least 10,000 at <a href="/wiki/Sana%27a" class="mw-redirect" title="Sana'a">Sanaʽa</a> University.<a href="#cite_note-Irish_Times_breaking26-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-tom_finn-46">[46]</a> By February, opposition leader <a href="/wiki/Tawakel_Karman" class="mw-redirect" title="Tawakel Karman">Tawakel Karman</a> called for a "Day of Rage" in the mold of mass nationwide demonstrations that helped to topple the government of <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a> and <a href="/wiki/2011_Egyptian_revolution" title="2011 Egyptian revolution">put pressure</a> on the government of President <a href="/wiki/Hosni_Mubarak" title="Hosni Mubarak">Hosni Mubarak</a> in <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Feb3_DayRage_aljaz-24">[24]</a> The protest drew more than 20,000 participants, as well as a show of force from Saleh's supporters.<a href="#cite_note-bbc_20k-22">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-oneindia_armedGPC_progov-25">[25]</a> Security forces responded to protests in Aden with live ammunition and <a href="/wiki/Tear_gas" title="Tear gas">tear gas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-aljaz_aden-23">[23]</a> After Mubarak quit power in Egypt, demonstrators celebrating the revolution and calling for a similar uprising in Yemen were attacked by police and pro-Saleh tribesmen.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> <a href="/wiki/Cleric" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleric">Clerics</a> called for a <a href="/wiki/National_unity_government" title="National unity government">national unity government</a> and elections to be held in six months in an effort to quell violence and place members of the opposition in government.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> Later in the month, deaths were reported in Ta'izz and Aden after security forces attacked protesters with lethal force.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> By the end of February, several major tribes in Yemen had joined the anti-government protests and protests swelled in size to well over 100,000 on several days.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> Saleh also called for a national unity government, but opposition leaders rejected the proposal and called for Saleh to step down immediately.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> In March, opposition groups presented a proposal that would see Saleh leave power peacefully,<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a><a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> but Saleh refused to accept it.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> A number of prominent <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemeni government">Yemeni government</a> officials resigned over the violence used to disperse protests.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> On 18 March 45 protesters were shot dead in Sanaʽa,<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-63">[63]</a> an incident that prompted the declaration of a state of emergency<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-63">[63]</a> and international condemnation.<a href="#cite_note-wpost18march-64">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> Several days later, Saleh indicated that he would be willing to leave power by the end of the year or even sooner,<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> but he later affirmed that he would not step down.<a href="#cite_note-aje0325-68">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a><a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> By the end of March, six of Yemen's 18 <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Yemen" title="Administrative divisions of Yemen">governorates</a> were out of the government's control, officials said.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mediation_attempts">Mediation attempts</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Mediation attempts">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_revolution_reconciliation_attempts" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemeni revolution reconciliation attempts">Yemeni revolution reconciliation attempts</a></div> In April, the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_Co-operation_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Gulf Co-operation Council">Gulf Co-operation Council</a> attempted to mediate an end to the crisis, drafting several proposals for a transition of power. Toward the end of the month, Saleh signaled he would accept a plan that would see him leave power one month after signing and provided for a national unity government in the lead-up to elections.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> By the end of the month, though, Saleh reversed course and the government announced he would not sign it, putting the GCC initiative on hold.<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> In early May, officials again indicated that Saleh would sign the GCC deal, and the opposition agreed to sign as well if Saleh signed it personally in his capacity as president.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> However, Saleh again backed away, saying the deal did not require his signature, and the opposition followed suit, accusing Saleh of negotiating in bad faith.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> Protests and violence across the country intensified in the wake of this second reversal by Saleh.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> In late May, opposition leaders received assurances that Saleh would sign the GCC plan after all, and they signed the deal the day before the president was scheduled to ink it as well.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> Saleh however once again decided not to sign, and a brief but tense standoff occurred on 22 May when Saleh's supporters surrounded the embassy building of the <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a> in Sanaʽa, trapping international diplomats (including the secretary-general of the GCC) inside until the government dispatched a helicopter to ferry them to the presidential palace.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Uprising">Uprising</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Uprising">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sanaa_(2011)" title="Battle of Sanaa (2011)">Battle of Sanaa (2011)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yemen_division_2011-10-23.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Yemen_division_2011-10-23.svg/220px-Yemen_division_2011-10-23.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Yemen_division_2011-10-23.svg/330px-Yemen_division_2011-10-23.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Yemen_division_2011-10-23.svg/440px-Yemen_division_2011-10-23.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1524" data-file-height="995" /></a><figcaption>Territory and areas of influence for rebels (blue) and Islamists (red) in Yemen's uprising, as of 23 October 2011.</figcaption></figure> On 23 May, a day after Saleh refused to sign the transition agreement, Sheikh <a href="/wiki/Sadiq_al-Ahmar" title="Sadiq al-Ahmar">Sadiq al-Ahmar</a>, the head of the <a href="/wiki/Hashid" title="Hashid">Hashid</a> tribal federation, one of the most powerful tribes in the country, declared support for the opposition and his armed supporters came into conflict with loyalist security forces in the capital <a href="/wiki/Sana%27a" class="mw-redirect" title="Sana'a">Sanaʽa</a> after Saleh ordered al-Ahmar's arrest.<a href="#cite_note-570news-28">[28]</a> Heavy street fighting ensued, which included artillery and mortar shelling.<a href="#cite_note-570news-28">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-cnn.com-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-alternet.org-30">[30]</a> The militiamen had surrounded and blocked off several government buildings in the capital<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> and people on the ground were reporting that it looked like the situation was deteriorating into a civil war.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> As the situation in <a href="/wiki/Sana%27a" class="mw-redirect" title="Sana'a">Sanaʽa</a> was developing, about 300 <a href="/wiki/Islamic_terrorism" title="Islamic terrorism">Islamist militants</a> attacked and captured the coastal city of <a href="/wiki/Zinjibar" title="Zinjibar">Zinjibar</a> (population 20,000) (see <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Zinjibar" title="Battle of Zinjibar">Battle of Zinjibar</a>). During the takeover of the town, the militants killed seven soldiers, including a colonel, and one civilian. Two more soldiers were killed in clashes with militants in <a href="/wiki/Lawdar" title="Lawdar">Lawdar</a>.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a><a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> On day three of the fighting, military units that defected to the opposition were hit for the first time by mortar fire killing three soldiers and wounding 10.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> By the evening, it was reported that tribesmen took control of the Interior Ministry building, SABA state news agency, and the national airline building.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> A ceasefire was announced late on 27 May, by al-Ahmar,<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> and the next day, a truce was established.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> Opposition demonstrators had occupied the main square of <a href="/wiki/Taiz" title="Taiz">Ta'izz</a> since the start of the uprising against the rule of president Saleh. The protests were for the most part peaceful. However, that changed on 29 May, when the military started an operation to crush the protests and clear the demonstrators from their camp at the square. Troops reportedly fired live ammunition and from water cannons on the protesters, burned their tents and bulldozers ran over some of them. The opposition described the event as a massacre.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> (see 2011 <a href="/wiki/Ta%27izz_clashes" class="mw-redirect" title="Ta'izz clashes">Ta'izz clashes</a>) However, by 31 May, the ceasefire had broken down and street fighting continued in <a href="/wiki/Sana%27a" class="mw-redirect" title="Sana'a">Sanaʽa</a>.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> Tribesmen had taken control of both the headquarters of the ruling <a href="/wiki/General_People%27s_Congress_(Yemen)" title="General People's Congress (Yemen)">General People's Congress (Yemen)</a> and the main offices of the water utility.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> On 1 June, units of the loyalist Presidential Guard, commanded by one of Saleh's sons, shelled the headquarters of an army brigade belonging to the defected 1st Armored Division, even though the defected military units were holding a neutral position in the conflict between the loyalists and the tribesmen. The worst of the fighting was in the northern Hassaba neighborhood, where tribal fighters seized a number of government ministries and buildings. Government artillery fire heavily damaged the house of al-Ahmar and the government cut the area's electricity and water supplies. The government units, led by one of Saleh's sons, and loyalist special forces attacked but failed to recapture the Hassaba administrative building. Tribal fighters also seized the office of the General Prosecutor in the city's northwest. They were backed up by two armored vehicles from the 1st Armored Division. The Interior Ministry stated that the tribesmen had also captured a five-story building in the pro-Saleh Hadda neighborhood.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> During the 24 hours since the breakdown of the ceasefire, 47 people were killed on both sides during the heavy street fighting,<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> including 15 tribesmen<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> and 14 soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Presidential_Palace_assassination_attempt">Presidential Palace assassination attempt</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Presidential Palace assassination attempt">edit</a>]</div> On 3 June, a bombing at the presidential palace left Saleh injured and seven other top government officials wounded. Saleh, the prime minister, the deputy prime minister, the parliament chief, the governor of Sanaʽa and a presidential aide were wounded while they were praying at a mosque inside the palace compound. Saleh was initially said to be injured in the neck and treated on the scene; later reports indicated his wounds were far more severe – including a collapsed lung and burns over 40% of his body.<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> Four presidential guards<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> and Sheikh Ali Mohsen al-Matari, an imam at the mosque, were killed.<a href="#cite_note-palaceshell-31">[31]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yemeni_Protests_4-Apr-2011_P01.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Yemeni_Protests_4-Apr-2011_P01.JPG/220px-Yemeni_Protests_4-Apr-2011_P01.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Yemeni_Protests_4-Apr-2011_P01.JPG/330px-Yemeni_Protests_4-Apr-2011_P01.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Yemeni_Protests_4-Apr-2011_P01.JPG/440px-Yemeni_Protests_4-Apr-2011_P01.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>Protesters in <a href="/wiki/Sana%27a" class="mw-redirect" title="Sana'a">Sanaʽa</a>.</figcaption></figure> As Saleh flew to the Saudi capital of <a href="/wiki/Riyadh" title="Riyadh">Riyadh</a> for surgery on 4 June, a cease-fire was brokered by Saudi Arabia's King <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_of_Saudi_Arabia" title="Abdullah of Saudi Arabia">Abdullah</a>.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> Vice President <a href="/wiki/Abdrabbuh_Mansur_Hadi" title="Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi">Abdrabbuh Mansur al-Hadi</a> took over as acting president and supreme commander of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Yemen_Armed_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Yemen Armed Forces">Armed Forces</a>.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> Despite the ceasefire, sporadic violence continued in the capital.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> Saleh's powerful sons also remained in Yemen instead of traveling to Saudi Arabia with their father.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> On 6 July the government rejected the opposition's demands, including the formation of a transitional council with the goal of formally transferring power from the current administration to a caretaker government intended to oversee Yemen's <a href="/wiki/2012_Yemeni_presidential_election" title="2012 Yemeni presidential election">first-ever democratic election</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In response, factions of the opposition announced the formation of their own 17-member transitional council on 16 July, though the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Meeting_Parties" class="mw-redirect" title="Joint Meeting Parties">Joint Meeting Parties</a> that functioned as an umbrella for many of the Yemeni opposition groups during the uprising said the council did not represent them and did not match their "plan" for the country.<a href="#cite_note-reuters.com-35">[35]</a> On 6 August Saleh left the hospital in Saudi Arabia, but he did not return to Yemen.<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> On 18 September troops loyal to president Saleh opened fire on protesters in Sana'a, killing at least 26 people and injuring hundreds. Witnesses said security forces and armed civilians opened fire on protesters who left Change Square, where they had camped since February demanding regime change, and marched towards the city centre. Earlier on that day, government troops fired mortars into Al-Hasaba district in Sana'a, home to opposition tribal chief Sheik <a href="/wiki/Sadiq_al-Ahmar" title="Sadiq al-Ahmar">Sadeq al-Ahmar</a> who claimed his fighters did not return fire after they were shelled by the Republican Guard.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> On 19 September snipers in nearby buildings again opened fire on Monday at peaceful demonstrators and passers-by in the capital's Change Square, killing at least 28 people and wounded more than 100. Additional deaths were reported in the southwestern city of <a href="/wiki/Taiz" title="Taiz">Taiz</a>, where two people were killed and 10 were injured by gunfire from Saleh loyalists. Abdu al-Janadi, Yemen's deputy information minister, rejected accusations that the government had planned attacks on the protesters, and accused what he described as "unknown assailants" of carrying out the acts.<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> On 19 September protesters and ex-soldiers stormed a base of the elite Republican Guards, who are loyal to the president. Reports said not a single shot was fired as the Guards fled the base, leaving their weapons behind.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> On 22 September fighting broke out between Republican Guard troops commanded by Saleh's son Ahmed, and dissidents loyal to General <a href="/wiki/Ali_Mohsen_al-Ahmar" title="Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar">Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar</a>. Fighting which had been concentrated since 18 September in the city centre and at Change Square spread on to Sanaa's Al-Hasaba district, where gunmen loyal to powerful dissident tribal chief Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar traded fire with followers of <a href="/wiki/Sagheer_Hamoud_Aziz" title="Sagheer Hamoud Aziz">Saghir bin Aziz</a>, a tribesman loyal to Saleh.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Return_of_Ali_Abdullah_Saleh">Return of Ali Abdullah Saleh</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Return of Ali Abdullah Saleh">edit</a>]</div> On 23 September, Yemeni state-television announced that Saleh had returned to the country after three months amid increasing turmoil in a week that saw increased gun battles on the streets of Sanaʽa and more than 100 deaths.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> As of 1 October 2011, <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> was able to confirm 225 deaths and over 1000 wounded, many from firearms, since the Arab Spring protests began in Yemen.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a><a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> According to the <a href="/wiki/Committee_to_Protect_Journalists" title="Committee to Protect Journalists">Committee to Protect Journalists</a>, photojournalist <a href="/wiki/Jamal_al-Sharaabi" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamal al-Sharaabi">Jamal al-Sharaabi</a> from <a href="/wiki/Al-Masdar" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Masdar">Al-Masdar</a> was the first press fatality of the Yemeni uprising and killed while covering a nonviolent demonstration at the <a href="/wiki/Sana%27a_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Sana'a University">Sanaʽa University</a> 18 March 2011, but <a href="/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders" title="Reporters Without Borders">Reporters Without Borders</a> reported that <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohamed_Yahia_Al-Malayia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mohamed Yahia Al-Malayia (page does not exist)">Mohamed Yahia Al-Malayia</a>, a reporter from Al-Salam, was shot at Change Square on the same day but died later.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> Camera operator <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hassan_al-Wadhaf&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hassan al-Wadhaf (page does not exist)">Hassan al-Wadhaf</a> captured his own death on camera while assigned a protest in Sanaʽa on 24 September 2011.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a><a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a> On 7 October, the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Committee" title="Nobel Committee">Nobel Committee</a> announced that protest leader <a href="/wiki/Tawakel_Karman" class="mw-redirect" title="Tawakel Karman">Tawakel Karman</a> would share the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize">Nobel Peace Prize</a> with Liberian President <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf" title="Ellen Johnson Sirleaf">Ellen Johnson Sirleaf</a> and Liberian activist <a href="/wiki/Leymah_Gbowee" title="Leymah Gbowee">Leymah Gbowee</a>. Karman was the first Yemeni citizen and first Arab woman to win a <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize" title="Nobel Prize">Nobel Prize</a>. On 4 December 2017, Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed by Houthi militia in Yemen following days of conflict. His nephew, Tarek Saleh, was thought to have been killed the following day as the fighting between Saleh soldiers and Houthis continued. A few weeks later Tarek Saleh appeared in Aden with various stories about his escape including using women's clothing<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Power-transfer_deal">Power-transfer deal</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Power-transfer deal">edit</a>]</div> On 23 November 2011, Saleh flew to <a href="/wiki/Riyadh" title="Riyadh">Riyadh</a> in <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> to sign the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_Co-operation_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Gulf Co-operation Council">Gulf Co-operation Council</a> plan for political transition, which he had previously spurned. Upon signing the document, he agreed to legally transfer the powers of the presidency to his deputy, Vice President <a href="/wiki/Abdrabbuh_Mansur_Hadi" title="Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi">Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi</a> within 30 days and formally step down by the <a href="/wiki/2012_Yemeni_presidential_election" title="2012 Yemeni presidential election">presidential elections on 21 February 2012</a>, in exchange of immunity from prosecution for him and his family.<a href="#cite_note-survivor-114">[114]</a> On 21 January 2012, the <a href="/wiki/Assembly_of_Representatives_of_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Assembly of Representatives of Yemen">Assembly of Representatives of Yemen</a> approved the immunity law. It also nominated Vice President Hadi as its candidate for the upcoming presidential election.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> Saleh left Yemen on the next day to seek medical treatment in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, and is reportedly seeking exile in <a href="/wiki/Oman" title="Oman">Oman</a>.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> A <a href="/wiki/2012_Yemeni_presidential_election" title="2012 Yemeni presidential election">presidential election</a> was held in Yemen on 21 February 2012. With a report claims that it has 65 percent of its turnout, Hadi won 99.8% of the vote. <a href="/wiki/Abd_Rabbuh_Mansur_al-Hadi" class="mw-redirect" title="Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi">Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi</a> took the oath of office in Yemen's parliament on 25 February 2012. Saleh returned home on the same day, but did not attend Hadi's swearing-in ceremony.<a href="#cite_note-nytnewpres-40">[40]</a> Two days later, Saleh resigned from the presidency on 27 February 2012 and formally transferred power to his successor, marking the end of his 33-year rule.<a href="#cite_note-google.com-41">[41]</a> As part of the agreement, al-Hadi would have overseen the drafting of a new constitution and serve only two years, until new parliamentary and presidential elections were to be held in 2014.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Domestic_responses">Domestic responses</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Domestic responses">edit</a>]</div> On 27 January, Yemeni Interior Minister <a href="/wiki/Mutaher_al-Masri" title="Mutaher al-Masri">Mutaher al-Masri</a> said that "Yemen is not like Tunisia."<a href="#cite_note-Yemen_isnt_Tunisia-118">[118]</a> On 2 February, President Ali Abdullah Saleh said that he would freeze the constitutional amendment process under way. He also vowed not to pass on the reins of power to his son: "No extension, no inheritance, no resetting the clock;"<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> and that he would quit in 2013.<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> He also called for <a href="/wiki/National_unity_government" title="National unity government">national unity government</a>.<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> He further promised direct elections of provincial governors and to re-open voter registration for the April election after complaints that about 1.5 million Yemenis could not sign on to the voter rolls.<a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a> On 1 March, Saleh blamed the United States and Israel over the conflict.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] On 10 March, he announced a referendum on moving to a parliamentary system of government would be held later in the year. A spokesperson for the anti-government protesters said this was "too little, too late."<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a> He said a new constitution would guarantee the separation of legislative and executive powers and prepare for a new election.<a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> On 20 March, Saleh fired the cabinet, Saleh fired all members of his <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Yemen" title="Cabinet of Yemen">Cabinet of Yemen</a> on the same day including Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Ali_Muhammad_Mujawar" title="Ali Muhammad Mujawar">Ali Muhammad Mujawar</a> and vice-Prime Ministers <a href="/wiki/Rashad_al-Alimi" title="Rashad al-Alimi">Rashad al-Alimi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abdul-Karim_Al-Ar%27haby" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul-Karim Al-Ar'haby">Abdul-Karim Al-Ar'haby</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sadiq_Amin_Abu-Rass" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadiq Amin Abu-Rass">Sadiq Amin Abu-Rass</a>.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> but asked them to remain in a caretaker role until he forms a new one.<a href="#cite_note-AJYemen20Mar-126">[126]</a> The leader of the <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Congregation_for_Reform" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemeni Congregation for Reform">Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah)</a>, the largest opposition party in Yemen, <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_al-Sabry" title="Mohammed al-Sabry">Mohammed al-Sabry</a>, stated, "We want constitutional amendments but we want amendments that don't lead to the continuance of the ruler and the inheritance of power to his children."<a href="#cite_note-afreuters-2">[2]</a> He also doubted Saleh's pledge not to seek re-election. Al-Sabry said Saleh made a promise in 2006 not to run, but then failed to fulfill his pledge.<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a> On 23 March, Saleh, in a letter passed to opposition groups, offered to hold a referendum on a new constitution, then a parliamentary election, followed by a presidential poll before the end of 2011. The opposition groups said they were studying the offer.<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> On 24 March, Saleh issued a statement that he "has accepted the five points submitted by the JMP, including formation of a government of national unity and a national committee to draft a new constitution, drafting a new electoral law, and holding a constitutional referendum, parliamentary elections and a presidential vote by the end of the year<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> although it was later reported that negotiations between Saleh and the opposition had stalled.<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> On 30 March, at a meeting with <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_al-Yadoumi" title="Mohammed al-Yadoumi">Mohammed al-Yadoumi</a>, head of the Islah party, Yemen's president made a new offer, proposing he stays in office until elections are held at the end of the year but transferring his powers to a caretaker government, with a prime-minister appointed by the opposition. The opposition promptly rejected the offer, with a spokesman calling it "an attempt to prolong the survival of regime".<a href="#cite_note-AJYem30Mar-131">[131]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Resignations_from_the_ruling_party_and_government">Resignations from the ruling party and government</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Resignations from the ruling party and government">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Yemen" title="Cabinet of Yemen">Cabinet of Yemen</a></div> <ul><li>Head of the ruling party's foreign affairs committee and the Advisor to the Prime Minister, <a href="/wiki/H.E_Dr._Mohammed_Abdul_Majeed_Qubaty" class="mw-redirect" title="H.E Dr. Mohammed Abdul Majeed Qubaty">H.E Dr. Mohammed Abdul Majeed Qubaty</a><a href="#cite_note-guardianlivemarch18-132">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-yahooAUmarch20-quit-133">[133]</a></li> <li>Head of the finance committee of parliament <a href="/wiki/Fathi_Tawfiq_Abdulrahim" title="Fathi Tawfiq Abdulrahim">Fathi Tawfiq Abdulrahim</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeerampsmarch5-134">[134]</a></li> <li>Deputy Ministry of Culture (Yemen) <a href="/wiki/Sam_Yahya_Al-Ahmar" title="Sam Yahya Al-Ahmar">Sam Yahya Al-Ahmar</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeerampsmarch5-134">[134]</a></li> <li>Deputy Ministry of Youth and Sports (Yemen) <a href="/wiki/Hashid_Abdullah_al-Ahmar" title="Hashid Abdullah al-Ahmar">Hashid Abdullah al-Ahmar</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeerampsmarch5-134">[134]</a></li> <li>MP <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ali_Al-Imrani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ali Al-Imrani (page does not exist)">Ali Al-Imrani</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Al_Bayda%27_Governorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Bayda' Governorate">Al Bayda' Governorate</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeerampsmarch5-134">[134]</a></li> <li>Businessman Nabil Al-Khameri<a href="#cite_note-jazeerampsmarch5-134">[134]</a></li> <li>Ministry of Tourism (Yemen)] <a href="/wiki/Nabil_Hasan_al-Faqih" title="Nabil Hasan al-Faqih">Nabil Hasan al-Faqih</a>, from his post and the ruling party<a href="#cite_note-guardianlivemarch18-132">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-yahooAUmarch20-quit-133">[133]</a></li> <li>Minister of Culture and Yemeni Shura Council member <a href="/wiki/Abdulwahab_al-Rawhani" title="Abdulwahab al-Rawhani">Abdulwahab al-Rawhani</a>, from the ministry and council<a href="#cite_note-guardianlivemarch18-132">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to Russia Dr. <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Saleh_Ahmed_Al-Helali" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Saleh Ahmed Al-Helali">Mohammed Saleh Ahmed Al-Helali</a><a href="#cite_note-guardianlivemarch18-132">[132]</a></li> <li>Party's central committee member <a href="/wiki/Jalal_Faqira" title="Jalal Faqira">Jalal Faqira</a> who also heads the political science department at Sanaʽa University<a href="#cite_note-guardianlivemarch18-132">[132]</a></li> <li>Assistant Secretary General of the Cabinet <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Sewar" title="Mohammad Sewar">Mohammad Sewar</a><a href="#cite_note-yahooAUmarch20-quit-133">[133]</a><a href="#cite_note-newsYemenMar19-quit-136">[136]</a></li> <li>Head of the state news agency and a ruling party member <a href="/wiki/Nasr_Taha_Mustafa" title="Nasr Taha Mustafa">Nasr Taha Mustafa</a><a href="#cite_note-guardian1-137">[137]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to Lebanon <a href="/wiki/Fay%C3%A7al_Amine_Abourrass" class="mw-redirect" title="Fayçal Amine Abourrass">Fayçal Amine Abourrass</a><a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a><a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohamed_Saleh_Qara%27a" title="Mohamed Saleh Qara'a">Mohamed Saleh Qara'a</a>, a prominent member of the ruling party<a href="#cite_note-guardian1-137">[137]</a></li> <li>Human Rights Ministry (Yemen) <a href="/wiki/Huda_al-Baan" title="Huda al-Baan">Huda al-Baan</a>, from her post and the ruling party<a href="#cite_note-inquirer1-140">[140]</a></li> <li>Undersecretary at the Human Rights Ministry <a href="/wiki/Ali_Taysir" title="Ali Taysir">Ali Taysir</a><a href="#cite_note-inquirer1-140">[140]</a></li> <li>Representative to the <a href="/wiki/Arab_League" title="Arab League">Arab League</a> <a href="/wiki/Abdel-Malik_Mansour" title="Abdel-Malik Mansour">Abdel-Malik Mansour</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a> Jamal Awadh Nasser<a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a> (denied by the government<a href="#cite_note-yobserver23march-142">[142]</a>)</li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> <a href="/wiki/Abdul-Wali_al-Shameri" title="Abdul-Wali al-Shameri">Abdul-Wali al-Shameri</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> <a href="/wiki/Khalid_Bahah" class="mw-redirect" title="Khalid Bahah">Khalid Bahah</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> <a href="/wiki/Marwan_Abdullah_Abdulwahab_Noman" title="Marwan Abdullah Abdulwahab Noman">Marwan Abdullah Abdulwahab Noman</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a> (denied by the government<a href="#cite_note-yobserver23march-142">[142]</a>)</li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> <a href="/wiki/Salem_Yahya_Alkharejah" title="Salem Yahya Alkharejah">Salem Yahya Alkharejah</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> <a href="/wiki/Abdul-Wali_al-Shameri" title="Abdul-Wali al-Shameri">Abdul-Wali al-Shameri</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> <a href="/wiki/Abdulwahed_Mohamed_Fara" title="Abdulwahed Mohamed Fara">Abdulwahed Mohamed Fara</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> <a href="/wiki/Abdul-Wali_al-Shameri" title="Abdul-Wali al-Shameri">Abdul-Wali al-Shameri</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a> <a href="/wiki/Shaea_Muhssin" title="Shaea Muhssin">Shaea Muhssin</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Kuwait" title="Kuwait">Kuwait</a> <a href="/wiki/Khaled_Sheikh" title="Khaled Sheikh">Dr.Khaled Sheikh</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Oman" title="Oman">Oman</a> <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Daifallah_Al-Azeib" title="Ahmad Daifallah Al-Azeib">Ahmad Daifallah Al-Azeib</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> <a href="/wiki/Abdu_Ali_Abdul_Rahman" title="Abdu Ali Abdul Rahman">Abdu Ali Abdul Rahman</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Ali_al-Ahwal" title="Mohammed Ali al-Ahwal">Mohammed Ali al-Ahwal</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a><a href="#cite_note-guardianlivemarch21-143">[143]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> <a href="/wiki/Salim_Yahya_al-Kharega" title="Salim Yahya al-Kharega">Salim Yahya al-Kharega</a>;<a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a> (denied by the government<a href="#cite_note-yobserver23march-142">[142]</a>)</li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> <a href="/wiki/Abdel-Wahhab_Tawaf" title="Abdel-Wahhab Tawaf">Abdel-Wahhab Tawaf</a><a href="#cite_note-144">[144]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/Qatar" title="Qatar">Qatar</a> <a href="/wiki/Yahya_Hussain_Al-Aarashi" title="Yahya Hussain Al-Aarashi">Yahya Hussain Al-Aarashi</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a></li> <li>Ambassador to the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_al-Saidi" title="Abdullah al-Saidi">Abdullah al-Saidi</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a><a href="#cite_note-145">[145]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charg%C3%A9_d%27affaires" title="Chargé d'affaires">Chargé d'affaires</a> to <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeralivemarch21-141">[141]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Major General">Major General</a> <a href="/wiki/Ali_Mohsen_al-Ahmar" title="Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar">Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar</a> (Ali Mohsen Saleh), head of the North Western Military Zone, and three of his brigadiers:<a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a><a href="#cite_note-jazeeraarmymarch21-147">[147]</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brigadier" title="Brigadier">Brigadier</a> <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Ali_Mohsen" title="Mohammed Ali Mohsen">Mohammed Ali Mohsen</a>, head of the Eastern Division<a href="#cite_note-jazeeraarmymarch21-147">[147]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brigadier" title="Brigadier">Brigadier</a> <a href="/wiki/Hameed_Al-Qushaibi" title="Hameed Al-Qushaibi">Hameed Al-Qushaibi</a>, head of brigade 310 in Omran area<a href="#cite_note-jazeeraarmymarch21-147">[147]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brigadier" title="Brigadier">Brigadier</a> <a href="/wiki/Nasser_Eljahori" title="Nasser Eljahori">Nasser Eljahori</a>, head of brigade 121<a href="#cite_note-jazeeraarmymarch21-147">[147]</a></li></ul></li> <li>Sixty officers of the province of Hadramout and fifty officers from the Ministry of Interior[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdallah_al-Qahdi" title="Abdallah al-Qahdi">Abdallah al-Qahdi</a>, a senior military general from Aden<a href="#cite_note-148">[148]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arrests_and_repression">Arrests and repression</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Arrests and repression">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yemeni_soldiers_from_the_1st_Armoured_Division.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Yemeni_soldiers_from_the_1st_Armoured_Division.JPG/220px-Yemeni_soldiers_from_the_1st_Armoured_Division.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Yemeni_soldiers_from_the_1st_Armoured_Division.JPG/330px-Yemeni_soldiers_from_the_1st_Armoured_Division.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Yemeni_soldiers_from_the_1st_Armoured_Division.JPG/440px-Yemeni_soldiers_from_the_1st_Armoured_Division.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Yemeni soldiers from the 1st Armoured Division on 60th Street in Sanaʽa, 22 May 2011</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yemen_protest3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Yemen_protest3.jpg/220px-Yemen_protest3.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Yemen_protest3.jpg/330px-Yemen_protest3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Yemen_protest3.jpg/440px-Yemen_protest3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>A television reporter in the middle of protesters in <a href="/wiki/Sana%27a" class="mw-redirect" title="Sana'a">Sanaʽa</a></figcaption></figure> On 23 January, Tawakel Karman was detained and charged with "'inciting disorder and chaos' and organising unauthorised demonstrations and marches".<a href="#cite_note-ifex_karman_freed-149">[149]</a> Karman was a leader of two student rallies in Sanaʽa and called for the overthrow of Saleh's regime.<a href="#cite_note-aljaz_karman_detained-50">[50]</a> Her husband said her whereabouts were not known.<a href="#cite_note-aljaz_karman_detained-50">[50]</a> Several hundred students protested outside Sanaʽa University demanding her release.<a href="#cite_note-aljaz_karman_detained-50">[50]</a> Thousands of people protested against the arrest of Karman and other protestors by a sit-in outside of the prosecutor's office. She was freed 30 hours after her arrest on parole, with the condition not to violate "public order and the law".<a href="#cite_note-ifex_karman_freed-149">[149]</a> Karman returned to participating in demonstrations hours after her release.<a href="#cite_note-ifex_karman_freed-149">[149]</a> On 14 March, security forces raided an apartment shared by four Western journalists and deported them. <a href="/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders" title="Reporters Without Borders">Reporters Without Borders</a> condemned the action and noted that two other foreign journalists were also deported two days earlier. The <a href="/wiki/Committee_to_Protect_Journalists" title="Committee to Protect Journalists">Committee to Protect Journalists</a> also condemned the expulsions. They also said that two Yemeni journalists informed them that a group of twenty people, believed to be government supporters, went to the Yemeni Journalists' Syndicate in Sanaʽa day earlier[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">when?</a>] and threatened to burn it down.<a href="#cite_note-AJYemen15Mar-150">[150]</a> They further said that Yemeni journalists are facing increasing harassment.<a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_reactions">International reactions</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: International reactions">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Yemeni_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="International reactions to the Yemeni Revolution">International reactions to the Yemeni Revolution</a></div> The Yemeni government's response to protests prompted a backlash even from traditional allies like the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a><a href="#cite_note-Sudarsan_Raghavan-152">[152]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-153">[153]</a> A number of national governments have called on President Saleh to resign, and the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_Co-operation_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Gulf Co-operation Council">Gulf Co-operation Council</a> introduced an initiative calling upon Saleh to relinquish power in favor of a new, democratically elected government.<a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a> The Obama administration, however, supported "a transitional framework that preserved privileges for established political and military elements of the old regime, rather than respond to the groundswell of genuine support—no, demand—for political pluralism and a civil state."<a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a> On 7 October 2011, <a href="/wiki/Tawakul_Karman" class="mw-redirect" title="Tawakul Karman">Tawakul Karman</a> was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize">Nobel Peace Prize</a> for her visible role as a woman in the Arab Spring movement and as a human right activist in Yemen. She shared the Prize with Liberian President <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf" title="Ellen Johnson Sirleaf">Ellen Johnson Sirleaf</a> and Liberian peace activist <a href="/wiki/Leymah_Gbowee" title="Leymah Gbowee">Leymah Gbowee</a>. Before their prizes were awarded, only 12 other women had ever been granted the award.<a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Analysis">Analysis</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Analysis">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Use_of_pink">Use of pink</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Use of pink">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yemen_protest1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Yemen_protest1.jpg/220px-Yemen_protest1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Yemen_protest1.jpg/330px-Yemen_protest1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Yemen_protest1.jpg/440px-Yemen_protest1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Protesters with pink signs and headwear</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Colour_revolution" title="Colour revolution">Colour revolution</a></div> Yemeni protesters wore <a href="/wiki/Pink" title="Pink">pink</a> ribbons to symbolise the "<a href="/wiki/Tunisian_revolution" title="Tunisian revolution">Jasmine Revolution</a>" and indicate their non-violent intent.<a href="#cite_note-tom_finn-46">[46]</a> Shawki al-Qadi, a lawmaker and opposition figure, said pink was chosen to represent <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> and to signal that the protests would be peaceful.<a href="#cite_note-Code_Pink-157">[157]</a> The preponderance of pink ribbons in the demonstrations showed the level of planning that went into the protests.<a href="#cite_note-Code_Pink-157">[157]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Opposition_factions">Opposition factions</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Opposition factions">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Political_parties_in_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Political parties in Yemen">Political parties in Yemen</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2011%E2%80%932012_Yemeni_revolution_(from_Al_Jazeera)_-_20110301-05.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/2011%E2%80%932012_Yemeni_revolution_%28from_Al_Jazeera%29_-_20110301-05.jpg/220px-2011%E2%80%932012_Yemeni_revolution_%28from_Al_Jazeera%29_-_20110301-05.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/2011%E2%80%932012_Yemeni_revolution_%28from_Al_Jazeera%29_-_20110301-05.jpg/330px-2011%E2%80%932012_Yemeni_revolution_%28from_Al_Jazeera%29_-_20110301-05.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/2011%E2%80%932012_Yemeni_revolution_%28from_Al_Jazeera%29_-_20110301-05.jpg/440px-2011%E2%80%932012_Yemeni_revolution_%28from_Al_Jazeera%29_-_20110301-05.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2288" data-file-height="1520" /></a><figcaption>Tens of thousands of protesters marching to <a href="/wiki/Sana%27a_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Sana'a University">Sanaʽa University</a>, joined for the first time by opposition parties</figcaption></figure> According to <a href="/wiki/Al_Jazeera_Media_Network" title="Al Jazeera Media Network">Al Jazeera</a>, the deeply fractured opposition includes the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Meeting_Parties" class="mw-redirect" title="Joint Meeting Parties">Joint Meeting Parties</a> (JMP; formed in 2002), <a href="/wiki/Al-Islah_(Yemen)" title="Al-Islah (Yemen)">Islah</a> (also known as Yemeni Congregation for Reform and the major member of JMP), the al-Ahmar family, and various insurrection groups including the <a href="/wiki/Houthis" class="mw-redirect" title="Houthis">Houthis</a> in the north and the <a href="/wiki/South_Yemen_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="South Yemen Movement">South Yemen Movement</a> in the south. These groups include socialist, Islamist and tribal elements with differing goals. Islah, which <a href="/wiki/2003_Yemeni_parliamentary_election" title="2003 Yemeni parliamentary election">currently holds about twenty per cent</a> of the seats in the legislature, includes some members of the Ahmar family, Yemen's <a href="/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#Yemen" title="Muslim Brotherhood">Muslim Brotherhood</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Salafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Salafi">Salafi</a> preacher <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Majid_al-Zindani" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Majid al-Zindani">Abdul Majid al-Zindani</a>, labeled a "specially designated global terrorist" by the US. The JMP also includes the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), Al-Haq, the Unionist party, and the Popular Forces Union party. The al-Ahmar sons – <a href="/wiki/Sadek_al-Ahmar" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadek al-Ahmar">Sadek al-Ahmar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hamid_al-Ahmar" title="Hamid al-Ahmar">Hamid al-Ahmar</a> – whose late father was a former leader of the Hashid tribal confederation, want power. The Southern Movement has temporarily dropped its calls for secession with calls for Saleh's ouster.<a href="#cite_note-158">[158]</a> <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Yemen" title="Human rights in Yemen">Yemeni human-rights activists</a> and students disagree with <a href="/wiki/Political_parties_in_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Political parties in Yemen">political parties</a> regarding tactics for political change in Yemen. Some political parties have called for reform to take place under President Saleh, while students and human rights activists have wished to "channel the momentum of the <a href="/wiki/Arab_Spring" title="Arab Spring">2010–2011 uprisings in the region</a>."<a href="#cite_note-WP_Yemeni_tactics-159">[159]</a> In late January, a lawyer and human-rights activist involved in organising protests, Khaled al-Anesi, stated "There is a popular movement and a political movement in Yemen. But there is no support from the political parties for the popular movement, which is not organised. It is still weak and in the beginning stages."<a href="#cite_note-WP_Yemeni_tactics-159">[159]</a> On 21 March, the <a href="/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times">Financial Times</a> reported that in the absence of obvious candidates for the presidency, the transition of power is likely to be controlled by those who made the pre-emptive strike against him: <a href="/wiki/Hamid_al-Ahmar" title="Hamid al-Ahmar">Hamid al-Ahmar</a> of Islah and the JMP, radical cleric <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Majid_al-Zindani" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Majid al-Zindani">Abdul Majid al-Zindani</a>, and Islamist-allied General <a href="/wiki/Ali_Mohsen_al-Ahmar" title="Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar">Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar</a> (also called <a href="/wiki/Ali_Mohsen_Saleh" class="mw-redirect" title="Ali Mohsen Saleh">Ali Mohsen Saleh</a>).<a href="#cite_note-160">[160]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Southern_groups">Southern groups</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Southern groups">edit</a>]</div> Southern secessionist groups said they were holding three Yemeni soldiers kidnapped towards the end of January. On 2 February, clashes in the south also resulted in three injuries.<a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a> A growing number of protesters in the north sees with interest the rise of the <a href="/wiki/South_Yemen_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="South Yemen Movement">South Yemen Movement</a>, maybe hoping that the southern secessionists may overthrow the government.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Al_Qaeda">Al Qaeda</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Al Qaeda">edit</a>]</div> On 6 March, <a href="/wiki/Al_Qaeda_in_the_Arabian_Peninsula" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula">Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula</a> (AQAP) claimed responsibility for the shooting of five soldiers two separate attacks during the ongoing protests. Four of the soldiers were killed in <a href="/wiki/Ma%27rib_Governorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Ma'rib Governorate">Ma'rib Governorate</a> when the perpetrators opened fire on a passing military vehicle. Two of the soldiers were part of the <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Republican_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemeni Republican Guard">Republican Guard</a>. The other death was that of an army colonel who was shot as he went shopping in <a href="/wiki/Zinjibar" title="Zinjibar">Zinjibar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abyan_Governorate" title="Abyan Governorate">Abyan Governorate</a>.<a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a> On 31 March 2011, AQAP declared an "Islamic <a href="/wiki/Emirate" title="Emirate">Emirate</a>" in the southern <a href="/wiki/Abyan_Governorate" title="Abyan Governorate">Abyan Governorate</a>.<a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Joint_Meeting_Parties">Joint Meeting Parties</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Joint Meeting Parties">edit</a>]</div> On 2 March, six members of the JMP issued a five-point list of demands: right to demonstrate, investigations into violence, peaceful transition of government, time schedule within current year, and dialogue with those both inside and outside of Yemen.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated3-164">[164]</a> On 4 April, the JMP issued a statement that any new regime, after Saleh's fall, would be a strong ally in the "War on Terror".<a href="#cite_note-165">[165]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alliance_of_Yemeni_Tribes">Alliance of Yemeni Tribes</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Alliance of Yemeni Tribes">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Alliance_of_Yemeni_Tribes" title="Alliance of Yemeni Tribes">Alliance of Yemeni Tribes</a></div> A group of anti-government tribes, most prominently the <a href="/wiki/Hashid" title="Hashid">Hashid</a> tribal federation, declared the formation of the Alliance of Yemeni Tribes on 30 July. The Alliance is headed by Sheikh <a href="/wiki/Sadiq_al-Ahmar" title="Sadiq al-Ahmar">Sadiq al-Ahmar</a>, the leader of the Hashid and a former ally of President Saleh, and is aligned with <a href="/wiki/Yemen_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemen Army">Yemen Army</a> defectors under the leadership of General <a href="/wiki/Ali_Mohsen_al-Ahmar" title="Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar">Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar</a>. In its first declaration, it vowed solidarity with the protest movement and warned the government that any attack on protesters or areas under the control of the Yemeni opposition would be seen as attacks on the tribes.<a href="#cite_note-166">[166]</a><a href="#cite_note-167">[167]</a> On 13 March 2011, a coordination council of the Sanaʽa University protestors presented a list of seven demands, starting with the removal of Saleh and the creation of a temporary presidential council made up of representatives drawn from Yemen's four main political powers along with one appointed by the national security and military establishment. Many members of the Revolutionary Coalition of Youth for Peaceful Change (12 organizations) and the Organization of Liberal Yemeni Youth appear to be represented by this coordination council.<a href="#cite_note-168">[168]</a> On 17 March they sent a letter to US President Barack Obama, copying British PM David Cameron and EU President John Bruton, explaining their group, positions and proposals.<a href="#cite_note-169">[169]</a> On 8 April 2011, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Civil_Coalition_of_Youth_Revolution&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Civil Coalition of Youth Revolution (page does not exist)">Civil Coalition of Youth Revolution</a> (CCYR), a Yemen-based civil movement which includes 52 alliances of revolutionary youth activists around Yemen representing more than 10,000 members, released its Statute Draft including its "vision, revolution objectives, principles, duties, mechanisms and goals of the interim phase".<a href="#cite_note-170">[170]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="National_Dialogue_Conference">National Dialogue Conference</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: National Dialogue Conference">edit</a>]</div> On 20 March, the <a href="/wiki/National_Dialogue_Conference" title="National Dialogue Conference">National Dialogue Conference</a> issued a position paper and list of demands. Their members are the JMP, independents, some <a href="/wiki/General_People%27s_Congress_(Yemen)" title="General People's Congress (Yemen)">General People's Congress</a> members, and social figures including political, tribal and businessmen. It is headed by <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Basindawa" title="Mohammed Basindawa">Mohammed Basindawa</a>, an adviser to the president, and Sheik <a href="/wiki/Hameed_Al-Ahmer" class="mw-redirect" title="Hameed Al-Ahmer">Hameed Al-Ahmer</a> of Islah is its Secretary General.<a href="#cite_note-171">[171]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Civil_Bloc">Civil Bloc</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Civil Bloc">edit</a>]</div> On 24 March, the Civil Bloc, an umbrella group of civil society organisations, called for a transitional council of nine figures "not involved with the corruption of the old regime" to draw up a new constitution over a six-month period ahead of elections.<a href="#cite_note-172">[172]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Yemeni_revolution&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style 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Chaos in Yemen: Societal Collapse and the New Authoritarianism. London: Routledge. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780415780773" title="Special:BookSources/9780415780773"><bdi>9780415780773</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Chaos+in+Yemen%3A+Societal+Collapse+and+the+New+Authoritarianism&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=9780415780773&rft.aulast=Blum%C4%B1&rft.aufirst=Isa&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYemeni+revolution" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBoucekOttaway2010" class="citation book cs1">Boucek, Christopher; Ottaway, Marina, eds. (2010). Yemen on the Brink. Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780870032530" title="Special:BookSources/9780870032530"><bdi>9780870032530</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Yemen+on+the+Brink&rft.place=Washington&rft.pub=Carnegie+Endowment+for+International+Peace&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=9780870032530&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYemeni+revolution" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJuneau2010" class="citation journal cs1">Juneau, Thomas (2010). "Yemen: Prospects for State Failure—Implications and Remedies". <a href="/wiki/Middle_East_Policy" title="Middle East Policy">Middle East Policy</a>. 17 (3): 134–152. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1475-4967.2010.00456.x">10.1111/j.1475-4967.2010.00456.x</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Middle+East+Policy&rft.atitle=Yemen%3A+Prospects+for+State+Failure%E2%80%94Implications+and+Remedies&rft.volume=17&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=134-152&rft.date=2010&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Fj.1475-4967.2010.00456.x&rft.aulast=Juneau&rft.aufirst=Thomas&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYemeni+revolution" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThiel2012" class="citation journal cs1">Thiel, Tobias (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/43465/">"After the Arab Spring: power shift in the Middle East?: Yemen's Arab Spring: from youth revolution to fragile political transition"</a>. IDEAS Reports – Special Reports, Kitchen, Nicholas (Ed.) SR011. 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class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background-color:#eeeeee;"><div>"<a href="/wiki/Ash-shab_yurid_isqat_an-nizam" title="Ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam">Ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam</a>"</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left">Events by country</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2010%E2%80%932012_Algerian_protests" title="2010–2012 Algerian protests">Algeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Bahraini_uprising" title="2011 Bahraini uprising">Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Djiboutian_protests" title="2011 Djiboutian protests">Djibouti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian Revolution of 2011">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Iraqi_protests" title="2011 Iraqi protests">Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordanian_protests_(2011%E2%80%9312)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jordanian protests (2011–12)">Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuwaiti_protests_(2011%E2%80%932013)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuwaiti protests (2011–2013)">Kuwait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Lebanese_protests" title="2011 Lebanese protests">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Libyan_civil_war" class="mw-redirect" title="First Libyan civil war">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012_Mauritanian_protests" title="2011–2012 Mauritanian protests">Mauritania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012_Moroccan_protests" title="2011–2012 Moroccan protests">Morocco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Omani_protests" title="2011 Omani protests">Oman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Palestinian_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Palestinian protests">Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012_Saudi_Arabian_protests" title="2011–2012 Saudi Arabian protests">Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011%E2%80%932013_Sudanese_protests" title="2011–2013 Sudanese protests">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tunisian_revolution" title="Tunisian revolution">Tunisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Western_Saharan_protests" title="2011 Western Saharan protests">Western Sahara</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Yemen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left">Groups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Bahrain: <a href="/wiki/Al_Wefaq" title="Al Wefaq">Al Wefaq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_14_Youth_Coalition" title="February 14 Youth Coalition">February 14 Youth Coalition</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Egypt: <a href="/wiki/April_6_Youth_Movement" title="April 6 Youth Movement">April 6 Youth Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kefaya" title="Kefaya">Kefaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood" title="Muslim Brotherhood">Muslim Brotherhood</a> (<a href="/wiki/Freedom_and_Justice_Party_(Egypt)" title="Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt)">FJP</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Association_for_Change" title="National Association for Change">National Association for Change</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Democratic_Party_(Egypt)" title="National Democratic Party (Egypt)">National Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Salvation_Front_(Egypt)" title="National Salvation Front (Egypt)">National Salvation Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Socialists_(Egypt)" title="Revolutionary Socialists (Egypt)">Revolutionary Socialists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shayfeencom" title="Shayfeencom">Shayfeencom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ultras_Ahlawy" title="Ultras Ahlawy">Ultras Ahlawy</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Libya: <a href="/wiki/National_Liberation_Army_(Libya)" title="National Liberation Army (Libya)">National Liberation Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Transitional_Council" title="National Transitional Council">National Transitional Council</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Mauritania: <a href="/wiki/February_25th_Movement" title="February 25th Movement">February 25th Movement</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Saudi Arabia: <a href="/wiki/Women_to_drive_movement" title="Women to drive movement">Women to drive movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Committee_for_the_Defense_of_Human_Rights_in_the_Arabian_Peninsula" title="Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in the Arabian Peninsula">CDHRAP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Society_for_Development_and_Change" title="Society for Development and Change">Society for Development and Change</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Syria: Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_%E2%80%93_Syria_Region" title="Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region">Regional Command</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ba%27ath_Party_(Syrian-dominated_faction)" title="Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction)">National Command</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Coalition_for_Syrian_Revolutionary_and_Opposition_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces">National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Syrian_Army" title="Free Syrian Army">Free Syrian Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_Revolution_General_Commission" title="Syrian Revolution General Commission">Syrian Revolution General Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_National_Council" title="Syrian National Council">Syrian National Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Coordination_Committee_for_Democratic_Change" title="National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change">National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hizb_ut-Tahrir" title="Hizb ut-Tahrir">Hizb ut-Tahrir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_rebel_fighters_in_the_Syrian_civil_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign rebel fighters in the Syrian civil war">Foreign fighters</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Tunisia: <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Democratic_Rally" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitutional Democratic Rally">Constitutional Democratic Rally</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ennahda" title="Ennahda">Ennahda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popular_Front_(Tunisia)" title="Popular Front (Tunisia)">Popular Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tunisian_General_Labour_Union" title="Tunisian General Labour Union">Tunisian General Labour Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tunisian_National_Dialogue_Quartet" title="Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet">Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Yemen: <a href="/wiki/Alliance_of_Yemeni_Tribes" title="Alliance of Yemeni Tribes">Alliance of Yemeni Tribes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Islah_(Yemen)" title="Al-Islah (Yemen)">Al-Islah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hashid" title="Hashid">Hashid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houthis" class="mw-redirect" title="Houthis">Houthis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_People%27s_Congress_(Yemen)" title="General People's Congress (Yemen)">General People's Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Yemen_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="South Yemen Movement">Hiraak</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left">Notable people</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_the_Arab_Spring" title="Women in the Arab Spring">Women in the Arab Spring</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Algeria: <a href="/wiki/Abdelaziz_Bouteflika" title="Abdelaziz Bouteflika">Abdelaziz Bouteflika</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Ouyahia" title="Ahmed Ouyahia">Ahmed Ouyahia</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Bahrain: <a href="/wiki/Hamad_bin_Isa_Al_Khalifa" title="Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa">Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hasan_Mushaima" title="Hasan Mushaima">Hasan Mushaima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Salman" title="Ali Salman">Ali Salman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Ali_Jawad_al-Sheikh" title="Death of Ali Jawad al-Sheikh">Ali Jawad al-Sheikh</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Egypt: <a href="/wiki/Hosni_Mubarak" title="Hosni Mubarak">Hosni Mubarak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Suleiman_(politician)" title="Omar Suleiman (politician)">Omar Suleiman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohamed_Hussein_Tantawy" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohamed Hussein Tantawy">Mohamed Hussein Tantawy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Nazif" title="Ahmed Nazif">Ahmed Nazif</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Shafik" title="Ahmed Shafik">Ahmed Shafik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wael_Ghonim" title="Wael Ghonim">Wael Ghonim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamal_Ganzouri" title="Kamal Ganzouri">Kamal Ganzouri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Khaled_Mohamed_Saeed" class="mw-redirect" title="Death of Khaled Mohamed Saeed">Khaled Mohamed Saeed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essam_Sharaf" title="Essam Sharaf">Essam Sharaf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohamed_ElBaradei" title="Mohamed ElBaradei">Mohamed ElBaradei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohamed_Morsi" title="Mohamed Morsi">Mohamed Morsi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hesham_Qandil" title="Hesham Qandil">Hesham Qandil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bassem_Youssef_(television_host)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bassem Youssef (television host)">Bassem Youssef</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Jordan: <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_II_of_Jordan" title="Abdullah II of Jordan">King Abdullah II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marouf_al-Bakhit" title="Marouf al-Bakhit">Marouf al-Bakhit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samir_Rifai" title="Samir Rifai">Samir Rifai</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Libya: <a href="/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Muammar Gaddafi">Muammar Gaddafi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saif_al-Islam_Gaddafi" title="Saif al-Islam Gaddafi">Saif al-Islam Gaddafi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mustafa_Abdul-Jelil" class="mw-redirect" title="Mustafa Abdul-Jelil">Mustafa Abdul-Jelil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahmud_Gebril" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahmud Gebril">Mahmud Gebril</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Nabbous" title="Mohammed Nabbous">Mohammed Nabbous</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Mauritania: <a href="/wiki/Mohamed_Ould_Abdel_Aziz" title="Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz">Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moulaye_Ould_Mohamed_Laghdaf" title="Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf">Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Morocco: <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_VI_of_Morocco" title="Mohammed VI of Morocco">Mohammed VI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abbas_El_Fassi" title="Abbas El Fassi">Abbas El Fassi</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Saudi Arabia: <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_of_Saudi_Arabia" title="Abdullah of Saudi Arabia">Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khaled_al-Johani" title="Khaled al-Johani">Khaled al-Johani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manal_al-Sharif" title="Manal al-Sharif">Manal al-Sharif</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nimr_al-Nimr" title="Nimr al-Nimr">Nimr al-Nimr</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Sudan: <a href="/wiki/Omar_al-Bashir" title="Omar al-Bashir">Omar al-Bashir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hassan_al-Turabi" title="Hassan al-Turabi">Hassan al-Turabi</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Syria: <a href="/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" title="Bashar al-Assad">Bashar al-Assad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Naji_al-Otari" title="Muhammad Naji al-Otari">Muhammad Naji al-Otari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adel_Safar" title="Adel Safar">Adel Safar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riyad_Farid_Hijab" title="Riyad Farid Hijab">Riyad Farid Hijab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wael_Nader_al-Halqi" title="Wael Nader al-Halqi">Wael Nader al-Halqi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maher_al-Assad" title="Maher al-Assad">Maher al-Assad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burhan_Ghalioun" title="Burhan Ghalioun">Burhan Ghalioun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moaz_al-Khatib" title="Moaz al-Khatib">Moaz al-Khatib</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Hamza_Ali_Al-Khateeb" title="Death of Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb">Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Tunisia: <a href="/wiki/Zine_El_Abidine_Ben_Ali" title="Zine El Abidine Ben Ali">Zine El Abidine Ben Ali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohamed_Ghannouchi" title="Mohamed Ghannouchi">Mohamed Ghannouchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moncef_Marzouki" title="Moncef Marzouki">Moncef Marzouki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashid_al-Ghannushi" class="mw-redirect" title="Rashid al-Ghannushi">Rashid al-Ghannushi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fouad_Mebazaa" title="Fouad Mebazaa">Fouad Mebazaa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beji_Caid_Essebsi" title="Beji Caid Essebsi">Beji Caid Essebsi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamadi_Jebali" title="Hamadi Jebali">Hamadi Jebali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi" title="Mohamed Bouazizi">Mohamed Bouazizi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chokri_Belaid" title="Chokri Belaid">Chokri Belaid</a></li></ul> <ul><li>United Arab Emirates:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/UAE_Five" title="UAE Five">UAE Five</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Yemen: <a href="/wiki/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh" title="Ali Abdullah Saleh">Ali Abdullah Saleh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdrabbuh_Mansur_Hadi" title="Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi">Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tawakkol_Karman" title="Tawakkol Karman">Tawakkol Karman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Majeed_al-Zindani" title="Abdul Majeed al-Zindani">Abdul Majeed al-Zindani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Mohsen_al-Ahmar" title="Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar">Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadiq_al-Ahmar" title="Sadiq al-Ahmar">Sadiq al-Ahmar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul-Malik_al-Houthi" title="Abdul-Malik al-Houthi">Abdul-Malik al-Houthi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Ali_al-Houthi" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Ali al-Houthi">Mohammed Ali al-Houthi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left"><a href="/wiki/Impact_of_the_Arab_Spring" title="Impact of the Arab Spring">Impact</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_movement" title="Occupy movement">Occupy movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Albanian_opposition_demonstrations" title="2011 Albanian opposition demonstrations">Albania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Armenian_protests" title="2011 Armenian protests">Armenia</a></li> <li>Azerbaijan <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2011_Azerbaijani_protests" title="2011 Azerbaijani protests">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Baku_protests" title="2013 Baku protests">2013</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Belarusian_protests" title="2011 Belarusian protests">Belarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Burkinab%C3%A8_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Burkinabè protests">Burkina Faso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Chinese_pro-democracy_protests" title="2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests">China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010%E2%80%9312_Greek_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2010–12 Greek protests">Greece</a></li> <li>India <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2011_Indian_anti-corruption_movement" title="2011 Indian anti-corruption movement">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Indian_anti-corruption_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="2012 Indian anti-corruption movement">2012</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012_Iranian_protests" title="2011–2012 Iranian protests">Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Kurdish_protests_in_Iraq" title="2011 Kurdish protests in Iraq">Iraqi Kurdistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Israeli_social_justice_protests" title="2011 Israeli social justice protests">Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012_Maldives_political_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2011–2012 Maldives political crisis">Maldives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Mali_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Mali conflict">Mali</a></li> <li>Mexico <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Movement_for_Peace_with_Justice_and_Dignity" title="Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yo_Soy_132" title="Yo Soy 132">2012</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-austerity_movement_in_Portugal" title="Anti-austerity movement in Portugal">Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011%E2%80%932013_Russian_protests" title="2011–2013 Russian protests">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012_Spanish_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2011–2012 Spanish protests">Spain</a></li> <li>Turkey <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012_Kurdish_protests_in_Turkey" title="2011–2012 Kurdish protests in Turkey">2011–2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gezi_Park_protests" title="Gezi Park protests">2013</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_anti-austerity_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 United Kingdom anti-austerity protests">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_United_States_public_employee_protests" title="2011 United States public employee protests">United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_civil_war_(2011%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Libyan civil war (2011–present)">Libyan civil war (2011–present)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_crisis_(2011%E2%80%932014)" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian crisis (2011–2014)">Egyptian crisis (2011–2014)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left">UN Resolutions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_65/265" title="United Nations General Assembly Resolution 65/265">65/265</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1970" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1973" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2009" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 2009">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2014" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 2014">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2016" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 2016">2016</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left"><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Arab_Spring" title="International reactions to the Arab Spring">International reactions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Bahraini_uprising_(2011%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="International reactions to the Bahraini uprising (2011–present)">Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Egyptian_Revolution_of_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="International reactions to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011">Egypt</a></li> <li>Libya <ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Libyan_civil_war" class="mw-redirect" title="International reactions to the Libyan civil war">civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_2011_military_intervention_in_Libya" title="International reactions to the 2011 military intervention in Libya">military intervention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_death_of_Muammar_Gaddafi" class="mw-redirect" title="International reactions to the death of Muammar Gaddafi">death of Muammar Gaddafi</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="International reactions to the Syrian civil war">Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Tunisian_revolution" title="International reactions to the Tunisian revolution">Tunisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Yemeni_revolution" title="International reactions to the Yemeni revolution">Yemen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left">Domestic reactions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Domestic_responses_to_the_Egyptian_revolution_of_2011" title="Domestic responses to the Egyptian revolution of 2011">Egypt</a></li> <li>Libya <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Domestic_responses_to_the_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Domestic responses to the Libyan Civil War">domestic responses</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_reactions_to_the_Syrian_civil_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrian reactions to the Syrian civil war">Syria</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Arab_Spring" title="Timeline of the Arab Spring">Timelines</a> by country</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Bahraini_uprising_(2011%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of the Bahraini uprising (2011–present)">Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Egyptian_revolution_of_2011" title="Timeline of the Egyptian revolution of 2011">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Libyan_civil_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of the Libyan civil war">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2011%E2%80%9313_Saudi_Arabian_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of the 2011–13 Saudi Arabian protests">Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="Timeline of the Syrian civil war">Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Yemeni_revolution" title="Timeline of the Yemeni revolution">Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_crisis_(2011%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemeni crisis (2011–present)">Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_crisis_(2011%E2%80%93present)" title="Libyan crisis (2011–present)">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_crisis_(2011%E2%80%932014)" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian crisis (2011–2014)">Egypt</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2" style="background-color:#eeeeee;"><div> <ul><li><img alt="" 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Kingdom">Himyar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum" title="Kingdom of Aksum">Kingdom of Aksum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sasanian_Yemen" title="Sasanian Yemen">Sasanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_history_of_Yemen" title="Islamic history of Yemen">Islamic history</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Modern_history_of_Yemen" title="Modern history of Yemen">Modern</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saudi%E2%80%93Yemeni_War_(1934)" class="mw-redirect" title="Saudi–Yemeni War (1934)">Saudi–Yemeni War (1934)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alwaziri_coup" class="mw-redirect" title="Alwaziri coup">Alwaziri coup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Yemen_civil_war" class="mw-redirect" title="North Yemen civil war">North Yemen civil war</a></li> <li>Yemenite Wars <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yemenite_War_of_1972" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemenite War of 1972">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemenite_War_of_1979" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemenite War of 1979">1979</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Yemen_civil_war" title="South Yemen civil war">South Yemen civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_unification" title="Yemeni unification">Unification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(1994)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemeni Civil War (1994)">1994 Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houthi_insurgency" title="Houthi insurgency">Houthi insurgency</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen" title="Houthi takeover in Yemen">Takeover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen" title="Aftermath of the Houthi takeover in Yemen">Aftermath of the takeover</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_crisis" title="Yemeni crisis">Crisis (2011–present)</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen"><img alt="Yemen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Insigne_Iemeniae.svg/80px-Insigne_Iemeniae.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Insigne_Iemeniae.svg/120px-Insigne_Iemeniae.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Insigne_Iemeniae.svg/160px-Insigne_Iemeniae.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="544" /></a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Yemen" title="Geography of Yemen">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:Borders_of_Yemen" title="Template:Borders of Yemen">Borders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Yemen" title="List of cities in Yemen">Cities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_districts_of_Yemen" title="List of districts of Yemen">Districts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorates_of_Yemen" title="Governorates of Yemen">Governorates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Yemen" title="List of islands of Yemen">Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_protected_areas_of_Yemen" title="List of protected areas of Yemen">National parks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Rivers_of_Yemen" title="Category:Rivers of Yemen">Rivers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Yemen" title="Politics of Yemen">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Yemen)" title="House of Representatives (Yemen)">House of Representatives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Yemen" title="Cabinet of Yemen">Cabinet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Yemen" title="Constitution of Yemen">Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Yemen" title="Elections in Yemen">Elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Yemen" title="Foreign relations of Yemen">Foreign relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Yemen" title="Human rights in Yemen">Human rights</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Yemen">LGBT rights</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Yemen" title="Law enforcement in Yemen">Law enforcement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_parties_in_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Political parties in Yemen">Political parties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/President_of_Yemen" title="President of Yemen">President</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_Yemen" title="Vice President of Yemen">Vice President</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Yemen" title="Prime Minister of Yemen">Prime Minister</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Military_of_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Yemen">Military</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Guard_(Yemen)" title="Republican Guard (Yemen)">Republican Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Navy" title="Yemeni Navy">Navy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Air_Force" title="Yemeni Air Force">Air Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemen_Coast_Guard" title="Yemen Coast Guard">Coast Guard</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Yemen" title="Economy of Yemen">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Energy_in_Yemen" title="Energy in Yemen">Energy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_rial" title="Yemeni rial">Rial (currency)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mining_industry_of_Yemen" title="Mining industry of Yemen">Mining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Yemen" title="Telecommunications in Yemen">Telecommunications</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Health_in_Yemen" title="Health in Yemen">Health</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Languages of Yemen">Languages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Yemen" title="Religion in Yemen">Religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Yemen" title="Water supply and sanitation in Yemen">Water supply and sanitation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Yemen" title="Culture of Yemen">Culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_anthem_of_Yemen" title="National anthem of Yemen">Anthem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_Yemen" title="Cinema of Yemen">Cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_Yemen" title="Emblem of Yemen">Coat of arms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_cuisine" title="Yemeni cuisine">Cuisine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Yemen" title="Flag of Yemen">Flag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mass_media_in_Yemen" title="Mass media in Yemen">Media</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Yemen" title="List of museums in Yemen">Museums</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Yemen" title="Music of Yemen">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Yemen" title="Public holidays in Yemen">Public holidays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sport_in_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Sport in Yemen">Sport</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3" style="font-weight:bold;"><div><div style="margin-bottom:-0.4em;"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_Yemen" title="Outline of Yemen">Outline</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Index_of_Yemen-related_articles" title="Index of Yemen-related articles">Index</a></li></ul></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Yemen" 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style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Diplomatic posts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_Iran_to_Saudi_Arabia" title="List of ambassadors of Iran to Saudi Arabia">Ambassadors of Iran to Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_Saudi_Arabia,_Tehran" title="Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Tehran">Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Tehran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_Saudi_Arabia_to_Iran" title="List of ambassadors of Saudi Arabia to Iran">Ambassadors of Saudi Arabia to Iran</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Diplomacy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Safari_Club" title="Safari Club">Safari Club</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_proxy_conflict" title="Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict">Conflicts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_revolution" title="Iranian revolution">Iranian revolution</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1979_Khuzestan_insurgency" title="1979 Khuzestan insurgency">1979 Khuzestan insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab_separatism_in_Khuzestan" title="Arab separatism in Khuzestan">Arab separatism in Khuzestan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qatif_conflict" title="Qatif conflict">Qatif conflict</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1979_Qatif_Uprising" title="1979 Qatif Uprising">1979 Qatif Uprising</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" title="Iran–Iraq War">Iran–Iraq War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_June_5,_1984" title="Action of June 5, 1984">Action of June 5, 1984</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qatar%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_diplomatic_conflict" title="Qatar–Saudi Arabia diplomatic conflict">Qatar–Saudi Arabia diplomatic conflict</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Qatar_diplomatic_crisis" title="Qatar diplomatic crisis">Qatar diplomatic crisis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Egyptian_revolution" title="2011 Egyptian revolution">2011 Egyptian revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Bahraini_uprising" title="2011 Bahraini uprising">2011 Bahraini uprising</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saudi-led_intervention_in_Bahrain" title="Saudi-led intervention in Bahrain">Saudi-led intervention in Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insurgency_in_Bahrain" title="Insurgency in Bahrain">insurgency in Bahrain</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_civil_war_(2011)" title="Libyan civil war (2011)">2011 Libyan civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hezbollah_involvement_in_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="Hezbollah involvement in the Syrian civil war">Hezbollah involvement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="Iranian intervention in the Syrian civil war">Iranian involvement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saudi_involvement_in_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="Saudi involvement in the Syrian civil war">Saudi involvement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war_spillover_in_Lebanon" title="Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon">Spillover in Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Axis_of_Resistance" title="Axis of Resistance">Axis of Resistance</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_intervention_in_Iraq_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="Iranian intervention in Iraq (2014–present)">Iranian intervention in Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_crisis" title="Yemeni crisis">Yemeni crisis</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Houthi_insurgency" title="Houthi insurgency">Houthi insurgency</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Scorched_Earth" title="Operation Scorched Earth">Operation Scorched Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Blow_to_the_Head" title="Operation Blow to the Head">Operation Blow to the Head</a></li></ul></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Yemeni revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="Yemeni civil war (2014–present)">Yemeni civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saudi-led_intervention_in_the_Yemeni_civil_war" title="Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war">Saudi-led intervention in Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houthi%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabian_conflict" title="Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict">Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen" title="Houthi takeover in Yemen">Houthi takeover in Yemen</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%932020)" title="Libyan civil war (2014–2020)">Second Libyan civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Iran_clashes_(2016%E2%80%93present)" title="Western Iran clashes (2016–present)">Western Iran clashes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Incidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1987_Mecca_incident" title="1987 Mecca incident">1987 Mecca incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khobar_Towers_bombing" title="Khobar Towers bombing">Khobar Towers bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012_Saudi_Arabian_protests" title="2011–2012 Saudi Arabian protests">2011–2012 Saudi Arabian protests</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2016_Saudi_Arabia_mass_execution" title="2016 Saudi Arabia mass execution">2016 Saudi Arabia mass execution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Execution_of_Nimr_al-Nimr" title="Execution of Nimr al-Nimr">Execution of Nimr al-Nimr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_attack_on_the_Saudi_diplomatic_missions_in_Iran" title="2016 attack on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran">2016 attack on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Saudi_Arabia_mass_execution" title="2019 Saudi Arabia mass execution">2019 Saudi Arabia mass execution</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_alleged_Iran_assassination_plot" title="2011 alleged Iran assassination plot">2011 alleged Iran assassination plot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Mina_stampede" title="2015 Mina stampede">2015 Mina stampede</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Lebanon%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_dispute" title="2017 Lebanon–Saudi Arabia dispute">2017 Lebanon–Saudi Arabia dispute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017%E2%80%932020_Qatif_unrest" title="2017–2020 Qatif unrest">2017–2020 Qatif unrest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Riyadh_missile_strike" title="2018 Riyadh missile strike">2018 Riyadh missile strike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Maritime_Security_Construct" title="International Maritime Security Construct">International Maritime Security Construct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2231" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231">United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2019_Gulf_of_Oman_incident" title="May 2019 Gulf of Oman incident">May 2019 Gulf of Oman incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Afif_attack" title="2019 Afif attack">2019 Afif attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abha_International_Airport_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Abha International Airport attacks">Abha International Airport attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_attack" title="Abqaiq–Khurais attack">Abqaiq–Khurais attack</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Iranian relations with <a href="/wiki/Gulf_Cooperation_Council" title="Gulf Cooperation Council">GCC</a> member states</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bahrain%E2%80%93Iran_relations" title="Bahrain–Iran relations">Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Kuwait_relations" title="Iran–Kuwait relations">Kuwait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Oman_relations" title="Iran–Oman relations">Oman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Qatar_relations" title="Iran–Qatar relations">Qatar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_Arab_Emirates_relations" title="Iran–United Arab Emirates relations">United Arab Emirates</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_football_rivalry" title="Iran–Saudi Arabia football rivalry">Iran–Saudi Arabia football rivalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism" title="Iran and state-sponsored terrorism">Iran and state-sponsored terrorism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_proxy_conflict" title="Iran–Israel proxy conflict">Iran–Israel proxy conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab_League%E2%80%93Iran_relations" title="Arab League–Iran relations">Arab League–Iran relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_alliance" title="Arab–Israeli alliance">Arab–Israeli alliance</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_2019_Warsaw_Conference" title="February 2019 Warsaw Conference">Warsaw Middle East conference</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Syria%E2%80%93Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_coalition" title="Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq coalition">Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq coalition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_military_action_against_Iran" class="mw-redirect" title="Opposition to military action against Iran">Opposition to military action against Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation" title="Organisation of Islamic Cooperation">Organisation of Islamic Cooperation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Military_Counter_Terrorism_Coalition" title="Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition">Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_Cooperation_Council" title="Gulf Cooperation Council">Gulf Cooperation Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Mojahedin_Organization_of_Iran" title="People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran">People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran_International" title="Iran International">Iran International</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shia%E2%80%93Sunni_relations" title="Shia–Sunni relations">Shia–Sunni relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam_in_Saudi_Arabia" title="Shia Islam in Saudi Arabia">Shia Islam in Saudi Arabia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /> <a href="/wiki/Category:Iran%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_relations" title="Category:Iran–Saudi Arabia relations">Category:Iran–Saudi Arabia relations</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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separatism in Khuzestan">Arab separatism in Khuzestan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qatif_conflict" title="Qatif conflict">Qatif conflict</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1979_Qatif_Uprising" title="1979 Qatif Uprising">1979 Qatif Uprising</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Conflicts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" title="Iran–Iraq War">Iran–Iraq War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_June_5,_1984" title="Action of June 5, 1984">Action of June 5, 1984</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qatar%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_diplomatic_conflict" title="Qatar–Saudi Arabia diplomatic conflict">Qatar–Saudi Arabia diplomatic conflict</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Qatar_diplomatic_crisis" title="Qatar diplomatic crisis">Qatar diplomatic crisis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Egyptian_revolution" title="2011 Egyptian revolution">2011 Egyptian revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Bahraini_uprising" title="2011 Bahraini uprising">2011 Bahraini uprising</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saudi-led_intervention_in_Bahrain" title="Saudi-led intervention in Bahrain">Saudi-led intervention in Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insurgency_in_Bahrain" title="Insurgency in Bahrain">insurgency in Bahrain</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Libyan_civil_war" class="mw-redirect" title="First Libyan civil war">First Libyan civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hezbollah_involvement_in_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="Hezbollah involvement in the Syrian civil war">Hezbollah involvement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_involvement_in_the_Syrian_civil_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Iranian involvement in the Syrian civil war">Iranian involvement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabian_involvement_in_the_Syrian_civil_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Saudi Arabian involvement in the Syrian civil war">Saudi involvement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war_spillover_in_Lebanon" title="Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon">Spillover in Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Axis_of_Resistance" title="Axis of Resistance">Axis of Resistance</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Iraq_(2013%E2%80%932017)" title="War in Iraq (2013–2017)">War in Iraq (2013–2017)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_intervention_in_Iraq_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="Iranian intervention in Iraq (2014–present)">Iranian intervention in Iraq</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_crisis" title="Yemeni crisis">Yemeni crisis</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Houthi_insurgency" title="Houthi insurgency">Houthi insurgency</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Scorched_Earth" title="Operation Scorched Earth">Operation Scorched Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Blow_to_the_Head" title="Operation Blow to the Head">Operation Blow to the Head</a></li></ul></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Yemeni revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="Yemeni civil war (2014–present)">Yemeni civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabian%E2%80%93led_intervention_in_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen">Saudi-led intervention in Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houthi%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabian_conflict" title="Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict">Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen" title="Houthi takeover in Yemen">Houthi takeover in Yemen</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%932020)" title="Libyan civil war (2014–2020)">Second Libyan civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Iran_clashes_(2016%E2%80%93present)" title="Western Iran clashes (2016–present)">Western Iran clashes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Incidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1987_Mecca_incident" title="1987 Mecca incident">1987 Mecca incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khobar_Towers_bombing" title="Khobar Towers bombing">Khobar Towers bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012_Saudi_Arabian_protests" title="2011–2012 Saudi Arabian protests">2011–2012 Saudi Arabian protests</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2016_Saudi_Arabia_mass_execution" title="2016 Saudi Arabia mass execution">2016 Saudi Arabia mass execution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Execution_of_Nimr_al-Nimr" title="Execution of Nimr al-Nimr">Execution of Nimr al-Nimr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_attack_on_the_Saudi_diplomatic_missions_in_Iran" title="2016 attack on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran">2016 attack on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Saudi_Arabia_mass_execution" title="2019 Saudi Arabia mass execution">2019 Saudi Arabia mass execution</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_alleged_Iran_assassination_plot" title="2011 alleged Iran assassination plot">2011 alleged Iran assassination plot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Mina_stampede" title="2015 Mina stampede">2015 Mina stampede</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Lebanon%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_dispute" title="2017 Lebanon–Saudi Arabia dispute">2017 Lebanon–Saudi Arabia dispute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017%E2%80%932020_Qatif_unrest" title="2017–2020 Qatif unrest">2017–2020 Qatif unrest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Riyadh_missile_strike" title="2018 Riyadh missile strike">2018 Riyadh missile strike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Maritime_Security_Construct" title="International Maritime Security Construct">International Maritime Security Construct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2231" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231">United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2019_Gulf_of_Oman_incident" title="May 2019 Gulf of Oman incident">May 2019 Gulf of Oman incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Afif_attack" title="2019 Afif attack">2019 Afif attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abha_International_Airport_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Abha International Airport attacks">Abha International Airport attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_attack" title="Abqaiq–Khurais attack">Abqaiq–Khurais attack</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Iranian relations with <a href="/wiki/Gulf_Cooperation_Council" title="Gulf Cooperation Council">GCC</a> member states</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bahrain%E2%80%93Iran_relations" title="Bahrain–Iran relations">Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Kuwait_relations" title="Iran–Kuwait relations">Kuwait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Oman_relations" title="Iran–Oman relations">Oman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Qatar_relations" title="Iran–Qatar relations">Qatar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_Arab_Emirates_relations" title="Iran–United Arab Emirates relations">United Arab Emirates</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism" title="Iran and state-sponsored terrorism">Iran and state-sponsored terrorism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_proxy_conflict" title="Iran–Israel proxy conflict">Iran–Israel proxy conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab_League%E2%80%93Iran_relations" title="Arab League–Iran relations">Arab League–Iran relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_alliance_against_Iran" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab–Israeli alliance against Iran">Arab–Israeli alliance against Iran</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_2019_Warsaw_Conference" title="February 2019 Warsaw Conference">Warsaw Middle East conference</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Syria%E2%80%93Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_coalition" title="Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq coalition">Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq coalition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_military_action_against_Iran" class="mw-redirect" title="Opposition to military action against Iran">Opposition to military action against Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation" title="Organisation of Islamic Cooperation">Organisation of Islamic Cooperation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Military_Counter_Terrorism_Coalition" title="Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition">Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_Cooperation_Council" title="Gulf Cooperation Council">Gulf Cooperation Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Mujahedin of Iran">People's Mujahedin of Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran_International" title="Iran International">Iran International</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shia%E2%80%93Sunni_relations" title="Shia–Sunni relations">Shia–Sunni relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam_in_Saudi_Arabia" title="Shia Islam in Saudi Arabia">Shia Islam in Saudi Arabia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" 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(2014–present)">Yemeni civil war (2014–present)</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="Timeline of the Yemeni civil war (2014–present)">Timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_the_Yemeni_crisis,_revolution,_and_civil_war_(2011%E2%80%93present)" title="Outline of the Yemeni crisis, revolution, and civil war (2011–present)">Outline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_crisis" title="Yemeni crisis">Yemeni crisis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Background</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Houthi_insurgency_in_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Houthi insurgency in Yemen">Houthi insurgency in Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen" title="Houthi takeover in Yemen">Houthi takeover in Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen" title="Aftermath of the Houthi takeover in Yemen">Aftermath of the Houthi takeover in Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sanaa_(2014)" title="Battle of Sanaa (2014)">Battle of Sanaa (2014)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Yemen" title="Human rights in Yemen">Human rights in Yemen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Battles and attacks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shabwah_Governorate_offensive_(2014%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shabwah Governorate offensive (2014–present)">Shabwah Governorate offensive (2014–present)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aden_Airport" title="Battle of Aden Airport">Battle of Aden Airport</a></li> <li>2015 Sanaa mosque bombings: <a href="/wiki/March_2015_Sanaa_mosque_bombings" title="March 2015 Sanaa mosque bombings">March</a> and <a href="/wiki/September_2015_Sanaa_mosque_bombing" title="September 2015 Sanaa mosque bombing">September</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marib_campaign" title="Marib campaign">Marib campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dhale" title="Battle of Dhale">Battle of Dhale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabian%E2%80%93led_intervention_in_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen">Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aden_(2015)" title="Battle of Aden (2015)">Battle of Aden (2015)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abyan_campaign_(March%E2%80%93August_2015)" class="mw-redirect" title="Abyan campaign (March–August 2015)">Abyan campaign (March–August 2015)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lahij_insurgency" title="Lahij insurgency">Lahij insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houthi%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabian_conflict" title="Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict">Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shabwah_campaign_(March%E2%80%93August_2015)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shabwah campaign (March–August 2015)">Shabwah campaign (March–August 2015)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mukalla_(2015)" title="Battle of Mukalla (2015)">Battle of Mukalla (2015)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taiz_campaign_(2015%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Taiz campaign (2015–present)">Taiz campaign (2015–present)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2015_Marib_Tochka_missile_attack" title="September 2015 Marib Tochka missile attack">September 2015 Marib Tochka missile attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aden_unrest_(2015%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aden unrest (2015–present)">Aden unrest (2015–present)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/October_2015_Aden_missile_attack" title="October 2015 Aden missile attack">October 2015 Aden missile attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Aden_car_bombing" title="2015 Aden car bombing">2015 Aden car bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Missionaries_of_Charity_attack_in_Aden" title="Missionaries of Charity attack in Aden">Aden Christian attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Aden_car_bombing" title="2016 Aden car bombing">2016 Aden car bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/23_May_2016_Yemen_bombings" title="23 May 2016 Yemen bombings">23 May 2016 Aden bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2016_Aden_bombing" title="August 2016 Aden bombing">August 2016 Aden bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2016_Aden_suicide_bombings" title="December 2016 Aden suicide bombings">December 2016 Aden suicide bombings</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Zinjibar_and_Jaar" title="Fall of Zinjibar and Jaar">Zinjibar and Jaar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2015_Taiz_missile_attack" title="December 2015 Taiz missile attack">December 2015 Taiz missile attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nihm_Offensive" title="Nihm Offensive">Nihm Offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Port_Midi" title="Battle of Port Midi">Battle of Port Midi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadramaut_Insurgency" class="mw-redirect" title="Hadramaut Insurgency">Hadramaut Insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Abyan_Offensive_(2016)" title="Southern Abyan Offensive (2016)">Southern Abyan Offensive (2016)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abyan_conflict_(2016%E2%80%932018)" class="mw-redirect" title="Abyan conflict (2016–2018)">Abyan conflict (2016–2018)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mukalla_(2016)" title="Battle of Mukalla (2016)">Battle of Mukalla (2016)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2016_Yemen_police_bombings" title="May 2016 Yemen police bombings">May 2016 Yemen police bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2016_Mukalla_attacks" title="June 2016 Mukalla attacks">June 2016 Mukalla attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Sanaa_funeral_airstrike" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 Sanaa funeral airstrike">2016 Sanaa funeral airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Yakla" title="Raid on Yakla">Raid on Yakla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Al_Hathla" title="Raid on Al Hathla">Raid on Al Hathla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sanaa_(2017)" title="Battle of Sanaa (2017)">Battle of Sanaa (2017)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aden_(2018)" title="Battle of Aden (2018)">Battle of Aden (2018)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Al_Hudaydah" title="Battle of Al Hudaydah">Battle of Al Hudaydah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dahyan_air_strike" title="Dahyan air strike">Dahyan air strike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abha_International_Airport_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Abha International Airport attack">Abha International Airport attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Jabara_Valley" title="Battle of the Jabara Valley">Battle of the Jabara Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2019 Abqaiq–Khurais attack">2019 Abqaiq–Khurais attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2020_Marib_attack" title="January 2020 Marib attack">January 2020 Marib attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Jawf_offensive" title="Al-Jawf offensive">Al-Jawf offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Bayda_offensive" title="Al Bayda offensive">Al Bayda offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2020_Marib_attack" title="August 2020 Marib attack">August 2020 Marib attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Aden_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 Aden attacks">2020 Aden attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Marib" title="Battle of Marib">Battle of Marib</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Aden_bombings" title="2021 Aden bombings">2021 Aden bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Abu_Dhabi_attack" title="2022 Abu Dhabi attack">2022 Abu Dhabi attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saada_prison_airstrike" title="Saada prison airstrike">Saada prison airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Jeddah_missile_attack" title="2022 Jeddah missile attack">2022 Jeddah missile attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Southern_Yemen_offensive" title="2022 Southern Yemen offensive">2022 Southern Yemen offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Sea_crisis" title="Red Sea crisis">Red Sea Crisis (2023-)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Prosperity_Guardian" title="Operation Prosperity Guardian">Operation Prosperity Guardian</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Yemeni_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="International reactions to the Yemeni Revolution">Reactions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_involvement_in_the_Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="Foreign involvement in the Yemeni civil war (2014–present)">Foreign involvement in the Yemeni civil war</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saudi-led_intervention_in_the_Yemeni_civil_war" title="Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war">Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blockade_of_Yemen" title="Blockade of Yemen">Blockade of Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_peace_process" title="Yemeni peace process">Yemeni peace process</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates_takeover_of_Socotra" class="mw-redirect" title="United Arab Emirates takeover of Socotra">United Arab Emirates takeover of Socotra</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Impacts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Yemeni_humanitarian_crisis" title="Timeline of the Yemeni humanitarian crisis">Humanitarian crisis</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Famine_in_Yemen_(2016%E2%80%93present)" title="Famine in Yemen (2016–present)">Famine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016%E2%80%932022_Yemen_cholera_outbreak" title="2016–2022 Yemen cholera outbreak">Cholera outbreak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Airstrikes_on_hospitals_in_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Airstrikes on hospitals in Yemen">Airstrikes on hospitals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Refugees_on_Jeju_Island" title="Refugees on Jeju Island">Refugees on Jeju Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Yemen" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen">COVID-19</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Yemen" title="Water supply and sanitation in Yemen">Water supply and sanitation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="War crimes in the Yemeni civil war (2014–present)">War crimes and human rights violations</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Belligerents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Yemen" title="Cabinet of Yemen">Alimi</a> government</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rashad_al-Alimi" title="Rashad al-Alimi">Pro-Alimi</a> <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Yemen_Armed_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Yemen Armed Forces">security forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Saleh" title="Ahmed Saleh">Saleh</a> loyalist defectors</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Islah_(Yemen)" title="Al-Islah (Yemen)">Al-Islah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popular_Resistance_Committees_(Yemen)" title="Popular Resistance Committees (Yemen)">Popular Resistance</a></li> 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title="Saleh Ali al-Sammad">Saleh Ali al-Sammad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohamed_al-Atifi" title="Mohamed al-Atifi">Mohamed al-Atifi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_al-Houthi" title="Mohammed al-Houthi">Mohammed al-Houthi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hussein_Khairan" title="Hussein Khairan">Hussein Khairan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul-Malik_al-Houthi" title="Abdul-Malik al-Houthi">Abdul-Malik al-Houthi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh" title="Ali Abdullah Saleh">Ali Abdullah Saleh</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Houthi_conflict_(2023%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="United States–Houthi conflict (2023–present)">United States–Houthi conflict (2023–present)</a></li> <li><a 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