Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (Arabic: 
علي عبدالله صالح الأحمر (help·info), ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ; born 21 March 1947[note 1] – 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. 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.
Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (Arabic: علي عبدالله صالح الأحمر (help·info), ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ; born 21 March 1947 – 4 December 2017) was a Yemeni politician who served as the first President of Yemen, from Yemeni unification upon 22 May 1990 to his resignation on 25 February 2012, following the Yemeni Revolution. 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.
Saleh developed deeper ties in the aerate of Western powers, especially the United States, in the War upon Terror. Islamic terrorism may have been used and encouraged by Ali Abdullah Saleh to win Western preserve and for disruptive politically irritated attacks.
In 2011, in the wake of the Arab Spring, which spread across North Africa and the Middle East (including Yemen), Saleh’s grow old in office became more and more untenable until eventually he was ousted as president in 2012. He was succeeded by Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, who had been vice-president since 1994.
In May 2015, Saleh openly associated with the Houthis (Ansar Allah) during the Yemeni Civil War, in which a protest action and subsequent insurgency succeeded in capturing Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, causing President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi to hand over and make off the country. In December 2017, he stated his invalidation from his coalition in imitation of the Houthis and otherwise sided later than his former enemies – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and President Hadi.
On 4 December 2017 during a battle between Houthi and Saleh supporters in Sana’a, Houthis accused Saleh of “treason” and he was killed by a Houthi sniper. Reports were that Saleh was killed even though trying to escape his compound in a car; however, this was denied by his party officials who said he was executed at his house.