Ex-Yemen leader urges rebel allies to heed UN, pull back
Yemen's influential former president urged his rebel allies Friday to heed UN demands to withdraw from territory seized in months of fighting, so Saudi-led air strikes can end and reconciliation begin./ Ali Abdullah Saleh, who still holds sway over army units allied with the Iran-backed Huthi rebels who now control large swathes of the country, had welcomed this month's Security Council resolution as a way to "stop bloodshed" in Yemen. More than 1,000 people have been killed in the fighting since late March, according to the UN, which said ...
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