Yemen rises against Saleh
2011 · Event
Change Square in Sanaa fills against Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year rule — and stays filled through massacres and the president's own near-assassination, until a Gulf-brokered deal eases him out with immunity. The transition curdles: within three years Saleh allies with the Houthi rebels he once fought, and Yemen's spring becomes the region's forgotten war.
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