Tanks enter Yemen capital as army chief defects

Tanks and armoured vehicles have deployed in the Yemeni capital after a top army commander and close aide to the country’s embattled leader announced he was defecting to the opposition.

Major General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar is the commander of the army’s 1st Armoured Division, units of which deployed in a major square in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, today.