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Houthi fighters hold images of relatives killed in violent conflict
Conflict & Justice
Yemen’s most stable city threatened by Houthi takeover
A woman holds a young malnourished child.
Foreign policy
Aid agencies fear impact in Yemen after US terror decision
Three men are shown wearing traditional Saudi headdress and garments while seated at a long white table.
COVID-19
Yemen pledging drive hopes to raise $2.4 billion to save aid ops as coronavirus spreads
UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths at the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen
Conflict & Justice
UN envoy to US: ‘We need to keep Yemen out of a potential regional conflict’
A sea of red flags wave as Yemeni Houthi protest.
Global Politics
Who are Yemen’s Houthis?
Two soldiers carrying guns stand in front of a black car.
Conflict
Yemen’s Sanaa airport to reopen; vital port city Hodeidah still contested
Men in military uniforms carrying guns at an airport with another man carrying luggage.
Conflict
Yemen peace talks begin with prisoner swap, reuniting war-torn families
A boy sits at his desk in a classroom in Saada province, Yemen
Politics
Young survivors of Yemen school bus air strike return to class amidst fears of future attacks
Children stand behind a fence at a school to which they have been evacuated from a village near Hodeidah airport amid fighting between government forces and Houthi fighters in Hodeidah,
Conflict
In Yemen, the battle for Hodeidah moves closer to city center
A view of the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen May 10, 2017
Conflict
US stands by as Saudi coalition begins assault on Yemeni port city
A Saudi border guard watches as he stands in a boat off the coast of the Red Sea on Saudi Arabia's maritime border with Yemen, near Jizan April 8, 2015
Conflict & Justice
Saudis say 19 oil ships are held hostage off Yemen. Not true, say maritime experts.
A woman lies on a table, her arm outstretched. Her face is hidden by a blue cloth.
Conflict
In a Yemeni town, hardship awaits displaced civilians
Supporters of southern Yemeni separatists take part in an anti-government protest in Aden, Yemen January 28, 2018
Conflict
South Yemen’s separatists speak through a Michigan mom
Smoke rises as people inspect damage at the site of airstrikes in the city of Saada, Yemen, Jan. 6, 2018.
Conflict
Saudi Arabia promises $1.5 billion in aid to Yemen — but it’s still bombing the country
Artist Haifa Subay paints a mural about children's suffering in a time of war, part of the 'Silent Victims' campaign in Sanaa, Yemen
Conflict
After 1,000 days of civil war in Yemen, violence has become ‘normalized’
Saida Ahmed Baghili, second from left, 19, who is recovering from severe malnutrition, poses for a photograph with her father and her sisters Jalila, left, 12, and Amal, right, 7, and 4-year-old brother Omar at their hut in al-Tuhaita district of Hodeidah
Conflict
UN official calls humanitarian conditions in Yemen ‘shocking’
A woman takes part in a graffiti painting campaign on a wall in Sanaa, Yemen
Conflict
Listen to Yemenis describe how they’re getting through the war
Newly recruited Houthi fighters ride on the back of a pick-up truck
Conflict
If Yemen’s Houthis weren’t Iranian proxies before, they could be soon
USS Mason
Conflict
US involvement in the Yemen war just got deeper
President Barack Obama shakes hands with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tameem bin Hamad Al Thani, while hosting the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council at Camp David on May 14, 2015.
Conflict
A royal Saudi ‘snub’ isn’t stopping the flow of American weapons to the Gulf
A scene from "The Color of Injustice"
Conflict
As Yemen descends into war, these young filmmakers defy the risk to capture the human stories
Workers unload emergency medical aid from Medecins Sans Frontieres from a plane at Sanaa airport on April 13, 2015
Conflict
Doctors Without Borders pleads: ‘Please allow the humanitarian actors to do their work’ in Yemen
A follower of the Houthi group raises his weapon as he stands on a vehicle on a damaged street in Sanaa on April 21, 2015.
Global Politics
For Yemenis abroad, it’s a daily call home to see if your family is still alive
A boy looks through a window of his home damaged by an air strike near Sanaa Airport March 31, 2015.
Conflict
No power, no fuel, no water, no food. That’s Yemen right now
A man reacts at the site of an air strike in Sanaa on April 8, 2015.
Conflict
It’s hard getting out of Yemen — and even harder to get help if you live there
Conflict
A filmmaker who gained unprecedented access to the Houthis explains what’s going on in Yemen
Jamal al-Labani, a father of three, was photographed earlier this year in Yemen's port city of Aden. He died last week after being hit by a mortar shell, and is believed to be the first US citizen killed in the current violence.
Conflict
1st American believed killed in latest Yemen violence; scores more trapped
Yemen's former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, pauses during an interview with Reuters in Sanaa on May 21, 2014.
Conflict
The man accused of stealing $60 billion from Yemen is still there and wielding power
People search for survivors under the rubble of houses destroyed by an air strike near the Sanaa airport on March 26, 2015.
Conflict
Yemen’s ‘turf battle’ just got a lot bigger — and a lot more dangerous
An injured girl reacts as she is carried by a man out of a mosque which was attacked by a suicide bomber in Sanaa on March 20, 2015.
Conflict
Yemen’s capital is wracked by bombings targeting mosques
US armored vehicles left behind in Yemen
Conflict
Western diplomats had ‘no Plan B’ for Yemen
Conflict
A Yemeni watches from afar — again — as his country erupts in chaos
Followers of the Houthi movement march as they demonstrate to show support for the Shiite rebel group in Sana'a on January 23, 2015.
Global Politics
The Houthi takeover in Yemen will reverberate in Saudi Arabia
Houthi fighters ride in a truck on a street leading to the Republican Palace in Sana'a, Yemen, on January 20, 2015.
Conflict
Rebels take over Yemen’s capital, but one Yemeni insists it’s ‘not big news’
Shiite Houthi rebels gesture as they stand atop an army vehicle they took from the compound of the army's First Armoured Division in Sanaa on September 22, 2014.
Conflict
Yemen’s peace deal brings Houthi rebels into the government, but many problems remain
Followers of the Shi'ite Houthi movement perform Friday prayers on the airport road in Sanaa. Shiite rebels shelled Yemen's state-run television building in Sanaa on Friday and hundreds of residents fled in a dramatic escalation of violence.
Conflict
The biggest threat in Yemen probably isn’t what you think