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Special Security Forces (Yemen)
The Special Security Forces ( ar, قوات الأمن الخاصة, Quwwatul Amn al-Khasah), formerly known until 2013 as the Central Security Organization ( ar, قوات الأمن المركزي, Quwwatul Amn al-Markazi), is a paramilitary force in Yemen under the control of the Minister of the Interior and forms a key part of the Yemeni security establishment. The force was some 50,000 strong , before the Yemeni Crisis Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast and s ... began, and SSF units are equipped with a range of infantry weapons and armored personnel carriers. The force also has its own extrajudicial detention facilities.Country profile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Haidan
Ibrahim Ali Ahmed Haidan (; born 1972) is a Yemen, Yemeni military official who serves as current Ministry of Interior (Yemen), Interior Minister of the Cabinet of Yemen, internationally recognized Yemeni government. On 18 December 2020, former President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi appointed Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Haidan as the interior minister of the Yemeni government, Cabinet of Yemen. Early life and education Ibrahim Haidan was born in 1972 in the city of Mualla in Aden, and received his primary and secondary education there. He entered the Naval College in Al Hudaydah, Hodeidah Governorate and graduated with the rank of lieutenant. He hold many military positions since his graduation until he became senior teacher in the college. Haidan studied Command and Staff course in the Sultanate of Oman, and then moved to the United States of America to receive a qualification course. He obtained a higher fellowship certificate from the Supreme Military Academy in Sanaa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahya Mohamed Abdullah Saleh
Yahya Mohamed Abdullah Saleh is the nephew of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, and was a chair staff of the approx. 50,000 strong Central Security Organization from 2001 to 21 May 2012. His father is Major General Mohammed Abdullah Saleh. Saleh was replaced with Major General Fadhel Bin Yahiya al-Qusi. Following his dismissal Yahya sent a letter to President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi ( ar, عبدربه منصور هادي, translit=ʿAbd Rabbih Manṣūr Hādī Yemeni pronunciation: ; born 1 September 1945) is a Yemeni politician and former field marshal of the Yemeni Armed Forces who served as the pres ..., expressing his support for Hadi. References Living people Yemeni politicians People of the Yemeni Revolution 1965 births Saleh family People from Sanaa {{yemen-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yemeni Revolution
The Yemeni Revolution ( intifada), also known as the Yemeni Revolution of Dignity followed the initial stages of the Tunisian Revolution and occurred simultaneously with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and other Arab Spring protests in the Middle East and North Africa. In its early phase, protests in Yemen were initially against unemployment, economic conditions and corruption, as well as against the government's proposals to modify Yemen's constitution. The protesters' demands then escalated to calls for the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. 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 Sanaʽa, Yemen's capital, on 27 January. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of The Yemeni Revolution (January – 2 June 2011)
{{short description, None A timeline of the Yemeni Revolution spans the following four articles related to the Yemeni Revolution: *Timeline of the Yemeni Revolution (January – 2 June 2011), a chronology from the start of protests in mid-January 2011 to 2 June 2011, the eve of a pivotal bombing * Timeline of the Yemeni Revolution (3 June – 22 September 2011), a chronology from the bombing of the presidential compound on 3 June 2011 to 22 September 2011, the last day of vice-presidential rule * Timeline of the Yemeni Revolution (23 September – December 2011), a chronology from the president's return on 23 September 2011 to the end of December 2011 * Timeline of the Yemeni Revolution (January – 27 February 2012), a chronology from the start of 2012 to the inauguration of a new president on 27 February 2012 See also *Timeline of the Arab Spring Yemeni Revolution Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sana'a
Sanaa ( ar, صَنْعَاء, ' , Yemeni Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥 ''Ṣnʿw''), also spelled Sana'a or Sana, is the capital and largest city in Yemen and the centre of Sanaa Governorate. The city is not part of the Governorate, but forms the separate administrative district of "ʾAmānat al-ʿĀṣima" (). Under the Yemeni constitution, Sanaa is the capital of the country, although the seat of the Yemeni government moved to Aden, the former capital of South Yemen in the aftermath of the Houthi occupation. Aden was declared as the temporary capital by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in March 2015. At an elevation of , Sanaa is one of the highest capital cities in the world and is next to the Sarawat Mountains of Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb and Jabal Tiyal, considered to be the highest mountains in the country and amongst the highest in the region. Sanaa has a population of approximately 3,937,500 (2012), making it Yemen's largest city. As of 2020, the greater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization, headquartered in New York City, that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. The group pressures governments, policy makers, companies, and individual human rights abusers to denounce abuse and respect human rights, and the group often works on behalf of refugees, children, migrants, and political prisoners. Human Rights Watch, in 1997, shared the Nobel Peace Prize as a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and it played a leading role in the 2008 treaty banning cluster munitions. The organization's annual expenses totaled $50.6 million in 2011, $69.2 million in 2014, and $75.5 million in 2017. History Human Rights Watch was co-founded by Robert L. Bernstein Jeri Laber and Aryeh Neier as a private American NGO in 1978, under the name Helsinki Watch, to monitor the then-Soviet Union's compliance with the Helsinki Accords. Helsinki Watch adopted a practice of public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Institute For Near East Policy
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP or TWI, also known simply as The Washington Institute) is a pro-Israel American think tank based in Washington, D.C., focused on the foreign policy of the United States in the Near East. WINEP was established in 1985 with the support of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the funding of many AIPAC donors, in order to provide higher quality research than AIPAC's publications. John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt described WINEP as "part of the core" of the Israel lobby in the United States. Background WINEP was started in 1985 by founding chairwoman Barbi Weinberg of Los Angeles, CA. Martin Indyk, an Australian-trained academic and former deputy director of research for AIPAC, was the first executive director. Indyk described the think tank as "friendly to Israel but doing credible research on the Middle East in a realistic and balanced way." The research was thus designed to be more independent and academic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fadhel Bin Yahiya Al-Qusi
Fazel in Persian, or Fadhel ( ar, فاضل) is an Arabic and Persian male given and also surname meaning "virtuous". It may refer to: *Michael Fadel (1710-1795), Maronite Patriarch of Antioch *Fazel Darbandi (died 1869/1870), Iranian Shia cleric and scholar *Mustafa Fazl Pasha (1830–1875), Ottoman Egyptian prince *Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali (1903–1997), Iraqi politician *Fazıl Küçük (1906–1984), Vice President of the Republic of Cyprus * Mounir Abou Fadel (1912–1987), political figure in Lebanon *Mohammad Fazel Lankarani (1931—2007), Iranian Islamic cleric *Iradj Fazel (born 1939), Iranian surgeon and academic *Fadhil Al Azzawi (born 1940), Iraqi writer * Mohamed Fadel Ismail Ould Es-Sweyih (c. 1950–2002), Sahrawi nationalist politician, member of the Polisario Front * Fazel Maleki (born 1953), Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja * Fadel Benyaich (born 1953), member of the royal cabinet of Morocco *Fadhil Abbas al-Ka'bi (born 1955), Iraqi children's writer and poet *Abdullah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi ( ar, عبدربه منصور هادي, translit=ʿAbd Rabbih Manṣūr Hādī Yemeni pronunciation: ; born 1 September 1945) is a Yemeni politician and former field marshal of the Yemeni Armed Forces who served as the president of Yemen from 2012 until 2022, when he stepped down and transferred executive authority to the Presidential Leadership Council, with Rashad al-Alimi as its chairman. He was the vice president to Ali Abdullah Saleh from 1994 to 2012. Between 4 June and 23 September 2011, Hadi was the acting president of Yemen while Ali Abdullah Saleh was undergoing medical treatment in Saudi Arabia following an attack on the presidential palace during the 2011 Yemeni uprising. On 23 November, he became Acting President again, after Saleh moved into a non-active role pending the presidential election "in return for immunity from prosecution". Hadi was "expected to form a national unity government and also call for early presidential elections within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ansar Al-Sharia (Yemen)
Jama'at Ansar al-Shari'a ( ar, جماعة أنصار الشريعة; '), also known as Ansar al-Shari'a, is a Yemen-based umbrella organization which includes units from several militant Islamic groups of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). In 2011, AQAP created Ansar Al-Sharia as a Yemen-based affiliate focused on waging an insurgency rather than international attacks on the West. In the view of the International Crisis Group, AQAP is "an internally diverse organisation with varying layers of support among the local population" and many AAS members and allies are not committed to AQAP's international agenda. After the Battle of Zinjibar (May–September 2011), the faction had taken control of some cities in southern Yemen in which it has instated emirates. Ansar ash-Shari'a have also claimed responsibility for the 2012 Sana'a bombing and the 2013 Sana'a attack. As of early 2017, AQAP and AAS were currently in a struggle for territorial control with the Houthi/Saleh forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Sana'a Bombing
The 2012 Sana'a bombing was a suicide attack on 21 May 2012, against Yemeni Army soldiers practicing for the annual Unity Day military parade in Sana'a, Yemen. The ceremony is carried out every year on 22 May since 1990 to mark the Yemeni unification, unification of Yemen Arab Republic, North Yemen and South Yemen as the Republic of Yemen. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) affiliate Ansar al-Sharia (Yemen), Ansar al-Sharia. Background The suicide bombing came 10 days into an army offensive against al-Qaeda in Yemen's restive southern Abyan province, where the AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) have seized control of a string of towns and cities in attacks launched since May 2011. According to witnesses and Yemeni officials, the Yemeni government had intensified its Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown, offensive against Al Qaeda in southern Yemen in the week prior to the attack with combined air and ground assaults leaving doz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Abdullah Saleh
Major General Mohammed Abdullah Saleh Afash ( ar, محمد عبد الله صالح ال عفاش; 1939 in Sanaa – 14 May 2001 in London) was the first Chief of Staff of the Yemeni Central Security Forces and one of its leaders and the brother of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh Afash. He died on 14 May 2001 in London and his body was transferred to Sanaa. Biography He memorized some of the Quran and then stopped teaching after his father's death, and worked in agriculture. In 1956, he was transferred to the city of Sanaa and joined the military corps, where he was sent with some of his colleagues to the city of Al Hudaydah, and there he received training and practical courses, and studied mosque jurists and at the weapons school, and he trained for a year in the nearby city of Bajil then returned to the city of Sanaa. He studied at the Officers' Warrant School, and graduated after two years with the rank of Non-commissioned Officer, then was assigned some tasks; amon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
