Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi PERSON He is the internationally recognized president of Yemen. Although a southerner born in Abyan governorate, he was on the losing side of th...
Abdul Malik al Houthi PERSON He is the leader of the al Houthi movement and is currently sanctioned by the US and the UN for engaging in acts that threaten Yemen’s st...
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi PERSON Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham and self-proclaimed Caliph.
Ahmad Umar PERSON Ahmad Umar, also known as Abu Ubaidah, is the emir of al Shabaab. Umar was named the group’s leader in September 2014 after former emir G...
Ahmed Abdi Aw Mohamed "Godane" PERSON Ahmed Abdi Godane, also known as Mukhtar Abu Zubair, was the emir of al Shabaab. He was one of the original founders of al Shabaab. The U...
Ali Abdullah Saleh PERSON Ali Abdullah Saleh unified northern and southern Yemen in 1990, maintaining power until the Arab Spring hit the country in February 2011....
Ali Akbar Velayati PERSON Ali Akbar Velayati is the senior advisor for foreign affairs to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Velayati previously served as Iran's f...
Ali Khamenei PERSON Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was born in Mashhad, Iran in 1939. He studied in Qom under prominent Shia scholars, including the I...
Ali Mohamed H Rage "Ali Dheere" PERSON Ali Mohamed Rage, also known as Ali Dhere, is al Shabaab’s head spokesman and a member of the group’s Shura Council. He also served as th...
Anwar al Awlaki PERSON Anwar al Awlaki was an American-born, inspirational cleric who preached in support of violent jihad against the West. He was a senior lea...
Ayman al Zawahiri PERSON Al Qaeda leader Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri was born on June 19, 1951, in Maadi, Egypt. Born into an upper-class family of doctors ...