Yemen’s former president killed amid fighting for capital

Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed to have killed their erstwhile ally Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country’s former president and strongman, as their forces battled for control of the capital, Sanaa.

The collapse of their alliance throws Yemen’s nearly 3-year-old civil war into unpredictable new chaos.

The circumstances of Saleh’s death were unclear, but a video of his body circulated on the Internet.