“The killing of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former Yemeni president, removes the country’s most important political figure for four decades from a complex equation that has plunged the Arab world’s poorest nation into conflict and sparked the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. His death marks a dramatic shift three years into a war in a state of stalemate. It risks the conflict becoming even more intractable.”

Source: Killing of Ali Abdullah Saleh changes dynamics of Yemen’s civil war | World news | The Guardian