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[citation needed] Saudi Arabia actively aided the south during the 1994 civil war. [195] Saleh became Yemen's first directly elected president in the 1999 presidential election, winning 96.2% of the vote. [186]: 310 The only other candidate, Najeeb Qahtan Al-Sha'abi, was the son of Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi, a former President of South Yemen.
After the start of the Israel-Gaza war in 2023, Yemen consistently voted in favor of a humanitarian ceasefire. [3] The Houthis, an Islamist political and military organization in Yemen, began firing rockets at Israel and attacking ships in the Red Sea, claiming to facilitate humanitarian aid reaching the Gaza strip.
Escalation into full-scale civil war. Arrival of ISIL to Yemen [12] First Sa'dah War (2004) Yemen: Houthis: Government victory. Death of Hussein al-Houthi; Second Sa'dah War (2005) Yemen: Houthis: Government victory. Houthis surrender after signing a deal [13] Third Sa'dah War (2005–2006) Yemen: Houthis: Government victory. Fighting ends ...
This is a timeline of Yemeni history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Yemen and its predecessor states. To understand the context to these events, see History of Yemen. See also the List of rulers of Saba and Himyar, the list of Imams of Yemen and the list of presidents of Yemen
The Gaza war [p] has been fought between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups [q] in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. It is Israel's 15th war in Gaza, [75] and sparked an ongoing Middle Eastern crisis. The first day of the war was the deadliest for Israel, and it is the deadliest war for Palestinians in the history of ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 February 2025. Ongoing civil war in the state of Yemen For other uses, see Yemeni civil war. Yemeni civil war Part of the Yemeni crisis, the Arab Winter, the war on terror, and the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict Political and military control in Yemen in February 2024: Republic of Yemen ...
Yemen supports the Arab Peace Initiative, which calls for Israel's full withdrawal from all occupied territories and the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in exchange for full normalization of relations with all Arab states in the region. In the spring of 2008, President Saleh attempted to broker a ...
Yemen's opposition parties became more vocal during the summer of 1997, when Israel's right-wing Likud government did not show willingness to accelerate the peace process. In April 1999, there was a report that Abd al-Karim al-Iryani , by then Prime Minister of Yemen , had met with the director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry.