... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen 
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
rocked the capital Sanaa for a second straight night, leaving at least three people dead, Saleh's party said Friday.
The violence threatens an alliance that has held the capital and much of the north of Yemen in defiance of the Saudi-backed government for more than three years.
Huthi fighters, also known as Ansarullah, surrounded the homes of two of Saleh's nephews late on Thursday, a source in Saleh's forces said.
"We were surprised by an armed attack by Ansarullah targeting the guards of the house of Brigadier Tareq Saleh, which left three dead and maimed three others," the ex-president's General People's Congress said.
"We hold Ansarullah fully responsible."
The Huthis said there were "festivities in some streets of south Sanaa," in a statement released on their Saba news agency, without giving further details of their location or any casualty toll.
Thursday night's violence came 24 hours after festivities at the Saleh mosque in Sanaa killed nine Houthis and five Saleh supporters.
One source at the Jumhuriya hospital said late on Thursday that the corpse count from the infighting had risen to as many as 18 rebels and six Saleh loyalists.
Saleh and the Huthis forged an unlikely alliance in 2014, ending decades of enmity to join ranks in fighting against Yemen's internationally recognised President Abedrabbo Mansour.
The infighting now threatens to unravel the fragile alliance, which has been battling a Saudi-led military intervention in the war since March 2015.
The conflict has since claimed more than 8,600 lives and triggered what the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
has described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.