Salafis seize their moment in Yemen


Issue 1023 - 07 Oct 2016 | 5 minute read

Salafists in Aden and Taiz are seizing the opportunity to take a major role both in combat and in the political arena, helped by reluctance among members of the Saudi-led coalition to rely too heavily on figures affiliated with Al-Islah, the Sunni Islamist party which previously supported former president Ali Abdullah Saleh (GSN 1,013/3). Saleh has many fewer friends in the region than during the decades he held sway in Sanaa, and nowhere is his stock – and consequently that of his current and erstwhile allies – lower than in Saudi Arabia.

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