Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned on Friday to Sanaa, as battles raged between rivals in the capital.

Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned on Friday to Sanaa, as battles raged between rivals in the capital.

After three months of medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, State television announced Saleh’s surprise visit he arrived by at morning.
An airport source told AFP news agency that Saleh arrived arrived by plane in Sanaa at 5:00 am (0200 GMT), an airport source told AFP.

Saleh, 69, who has since  January faced anti-government protests, was hospitalized in Riyadh on June 4, a day after being wounded in a bomb attack on his Sanaa compound.
Fierce clashes between Saleh forces and dissent troops were taking place in Sanaa for the sixth straight day, with almost 100 people killed since Sunday.

Both sides were backed by rival tribesmen, with witnesses saying the fighting on Friday was concentrated in the capital's northern Al-Hasaba district.
Al-Hasaba on Thursday became the theater of bloody clashes between gunmen loyal to powerful dissident tribal chief Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar and followers of Saghir bin Aziz, a tribesman allied to Saleh.

Most of the fighting since Sunday however has been in the center of Sanaa, pitting Republican Guard troops commanded by Saleh's son Ahmed against Ahmar's dissidents.
The general's forces have been protecting anti-regime protesters who since February have camped out in their thousands at Change Square to press their demand that Saleh, in power for 33 years, step aside.