Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 April 2022[1]
Personal details
Born
1970 (age 53–54) Sanaa, Yemen Arab Republic
Relations
Ali Abdullah Saleh (uncle) Yahya Saleh (brother) Ahmed Saleh (cousin) Mohammed Abdullah Saleh (father)
Children
Mubarak Saleh
Website
Twitter Profile
Military service
Allegiance
Yemen
Branch/service
Yemen Army
Years of service
1999 – present
Rank
Commander
Commands
National Resistance 2018–present Special Security Forces 2012–2017 Republican Guard 2004–2012
Battles/wars
Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
Tareq Mohammed Abdullah Saleh (Arabic: طارق محمد عبد الله صالح; born 1970) is a Yemeni military commander and the nephew of the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh. He is currently a member of the presidential council of Yemen. His father was Major General Mohammed Abdullah Saleh.[2] Prior to the national crisis beginning in 2011, he headed the elite Presidential Guard. In 2012, he was ordered to stand down from this position.[3] On 10 April 2013, he was appointed as a military attaché to Germany in an effort to remove the remnants of the previous regime.[4] He re-emerged as a commander in the Houthi-Saleh alliance when the Yemeni Civil War broke out in 2015. When this alliance collapsed in 2017, Tareq Saleh commanded troops loyal to his uncle. Prior to the collapse of the pro-Saleh forces, the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya reported that negotiations were ongoing to form a military council in Saleh-held areas, which would have been headed by Tareq.[5]
Following his uncle's death, reports emerged that the younger Saleh had also been killed.[6] However, these were never confirmed, and Houthi forces launched a manhunt. Saleh evaded capture and eventually resurfaced in the Hadi loyalist-held Shabwah Governorate.[7]
^Ghobari, Mohamed (7 April 2022). "Yemen president sacks deputy, delegates presidential powers to council". Reuters. Aden. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
^"أقارب المخلوع صالح.. الإقالة في مرحلتها الثانية". The New Arab. 4 June 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
^"Saleh nephew 'quits Yemen army'". BBC News. 27 April 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
^"Yemen president orders military shakeup". Associated Press. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
^"Consultations in Yemen to form military council headed by Saleh's nephew". 2 December 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2018 – via www.english.alarabiya.net.
^"Former Yemen president's nephew 'also killed in attack'". Sky.com. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
^Al-Haj, Ahmed (11 January 2018). "Disappeared nephew of Yemen's Saleh resurfaces in the south". Business Insider. Retrieved 13 June 2018 – via businessinsider.com.
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