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Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (Arabic: علي عبدالله صالح الأحمرⓘ, ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar; 21 March 1947[4][note 1][5] – 4 December 2017) was a Yemeni politician who served as the first President of Yemen, from Yemeni unification on 22 May 1990, to his resignation on 25 February 2012, following the Yemeni Revolution.[6] Previously, he had served as President of the Yemen Arab Republic, or North Yemen, from July 1978, to 22 May 1990, after the assassination of President Ahmad al-Ghashmi.[7] Saleh developed deeper ties with Western powers, especially the United States, during the War on Terror. Islamic terrorism may have been used and encouraged by Ali Abdullah Saleh in order to win Western support and for disruptive politically motivated attacks.[8][9] In 2011, in the wake of the Arab Spring, which spread across North Africa and the Middle East (including Yemen), Saleh's time in office became increasingly precarious, until he was eventually ousted as President in 2012. He was succeed

Ali Abdullah Saleh - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia President of Yemen from 1978 to 2012 "Ali Saleh" redirects here. For the footballer, see Ali Saleh (footballer) . {{cite book|last=Al Yemeni|first=Ahmed A. Hezam|title=The Dynamic of Democratisation – Political Parties in Yemen|year=2003|publisher=Toennes Satz + Druck GmbH|isbn=3-89892-159-X|url=http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/01459.pdf|access-date=11 February 2023|archive-date=29 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029060419/http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/01459.pdf|url-status=li

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