Hani al-Yazidi was an al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader.
Biography[]
Hani al-Yazidi was born in Yemen to a Sunni Muslim family of Arabs, and he became a senior leader of al-Qaeda's Arabian Peninsula branch. al-Yazidi led a group of al-Qaeda supporters in the southern Yemeni city of Aden during the Yemeni Civil War, and he was interviewed by Vice News at a bombed-out apartment in October 2016, not a long time after he had survived a failed assassination attempt. He met with Muslim journalist Suroosh Alvi, and al-Yazidi told him about how al-Qaeda was able to take control over much of Yemen due to the revolution against Ali Abdullah Saleh's regime.