Ahmed Abdulkareem

Ahmed AbdulKareem is a Yemeni journalist based in Sana'a. He covers the war in Yemen for MintPress News as well as local Yemeni media.

Balhaf: The Oil Port Where UAE Loots Yemen and Imprisons and Tortures Yemenis

The UAE has not only prevented Yemenis from exporting their own natural gas from Balhaf and forcefully laid off hundreds of employees, it has converted the sprawling industrial complex into a private military camp and secret prison.

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TotalEnergies Balhaf Feature Photo

BALHAF, SHABWA, YEMEN – Al-Shabwani, a resident from Ateq city in Shabwa province who requested that only his nickname be used, told MintPress News that he was detained for months and tortured in a secret prison inside Balhaf. Since 2016, when the UAE first entered Yemen's most productive oil and gas areas in Shabwa, Abu Dhabi has carved out Balhaf

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Talking “Peace” US Arms Saudis for Latest Attack on Yemen’s People: Operation Golden Bow

Amid a flurry of diplomatic gestures of peace from the United States, US bombs are devastating parts of Yemen in Saudi Arabia’s Operation Golden Bow.

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Yemen Feature Photo

HODEIDAH, YEMEN -- Inside the ruins of a modest Yemeni home where human and animal remains were strewn together, local rescuers struggled to evacuate a pregnant mother and other potential survivors from the rubble as warplanes circled above. There, they found the body of a toddler covered in ashes beside the remains of a humble dining table. The

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Saudi Coalition Withdrawal from Hodeidah Raises Hopes Yemen War May Be Coming to an End

The latest Saudi withdrawal comes on the heels of Ansar Allah’s recent capture of the oil-rich Marib province, the Saudi-backed government’s last northern stronghold.

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Yemen withdrawal Feature photo

HODEIDAH, YEMEN -- In the latest strategic blow to the Saudi-led Coalition in Yemen, forces from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have withdrawn from three strategic directorates in southern Hodeidah, Yemen's main entry point. The withdrawal comes on the heels of Ansar Allah’s recent capture of the oil-rich Marib province, the Saudi-backed

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Yemenis Remain Unbowed as Saudis Intensify Bombing in Wake of Renewed International Pressure

The Saudi regime is extending its heavy hand to those who oppose its war, using starvation as a weapon not only against Yemenis but also against other countries whose people or media exercise freedom of expression.

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Yemen bombing Feature photo

YEMEN-SAUDI BORDER -- This week, dozens of people were killed and injured near the Yemen-Saudi border when U.S.-made warplanes and French-made howitzer cannons fired unabated on many populated border areas in Sadaa and Hajjah -- including the Monabeh, Sahar, alSafra, al-Dhaher and Sheda areas. Samer Manea Ali Hussein, a 15-year-old Yemeni boy, was

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Huge Crowds in Yemen Celebrate Prophet’s Birth and Recent Military Successes — Pledge Full Liberation

All were celebrating and dancing on the ruins of Saudi destruction in a demonstration that is also a challenge to the machine of death.

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SANA`A, YEMEN -- Carrying a green flag in his hand and with ribbons tied on his wrist, Walid Ahmed al-Thueli, accompanied by a big family, arrived at the Square of the Seventy in the capital Sana'a early morning of Monday. He came to celebrate the birthday of Islam’s Holy Prophet Muhammad and recent victories that have been achieved by Yemeni

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In Shabwa, Yemen, Saudis Give Ground but Kill from the Air as War Rages On

“Nothing will appease us except that Saudi Arabia and the UAE leave our home.” — Yemeni grandfather in Shabwa province

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Yemen Saudi Jizan

SHABWA, YEMEN --  “A warplane killed them,” a shocked man in his seventies, draped in Shabwian traditional folk costume, said as he stood over the remains of the burning bodies of a family in Markhah district in Shabwa province, the third-largest governorate by area in Yemen. On Sunday, Saudi warplanes dropped Western-made bombs on the family of

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Grief and Anger After UAE Soldiers Torture and Kill Yemeni-American Student Trying to Visit Family

Abdulmalek, who had never so much as belonged to a political party or group, was looted of what he had saved for his family, tortured and shot to death by soldiers wearing the uniform of, and receiving their salary from, Abu Dhabi.

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Abdulmalek Alsanabani Feature photo

DHAMAR, YEMEN -- As his hope that the Sana'a International Airport will be reopened has faded, smiley-faced Abdulmalek Anwar Alsanabani -- a 25-year-old Yemeni-American living in Fresno, California -- finally decided to take the risky journey across the south of Yemen in order to see his family in Sana’a. Al-Sanabani had gone eight years away from

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