Tareq Mohammed Abdullah Saleh (; born 1970) is a

Yemen 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 Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

i military commander and the nephew of the late President

Ali Abdullah Saleh Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (, ''ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar;'' 21 March 1947There is a dispute as to Saleh's date of birth, some saying that it was on 21 March 1942. See: However, by Saleh's own confession, he was born in 1947 al ...

. His father was Major General

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 ...

. Prior to the national crisis beginning in 2011, he headed the elite

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. In 2012, he was ordered to stand down from this position but re-emerged as a commander in the

Houthi The Houthi movement (; ar, ٱلْحُوثِيُّون ''al-Ḥūthīyūn'' ), officially called Ansar Allah (' ''Partisans of God'' or ''Supporters of God'') and colloquially simply Houthis, is an Islamist political and armed movement that ...

-Saleh alliance when the

Yemeni Civil War Yemeni Civil War may refer to several historical events which have taken place in Yemen: *Alwaziri coup, February – March 1948 *Yemeni–Adenese clan violence, 1956–60 *North Yemen Civil War, 1962–70 *Aden Emergency, 1963–67 *South Yemen#Di ...

broke out in 2015. When this alliance collapsed in 2017, Tareq Saleh commanded troops loyal to his uncle. Prior to the collapse of the pro-Saleh forces, the Saudi-owned

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reported that negotiations were ongoing to form a military council in Saleh-held areas, which would have been headed by Tareq. Following his uncle's death, reports emerged that the younger Saleh had also been killed. However, these were never confirmed, and Houthi forces launched a manhunt. Saleh evaded capture, and eventually resurfaced in the

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loyalist-held governorate of

Shabwah Shabwah ( ar, شَبْوَة, Šabwa) is a governorate (province) of Yemen. Its main town is Ataq. During the Yemeni Civil War in 2015, the province became a battleground. The battle, known as the Shabwah Campaign, ended on August 15, 2015, af ...

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