All were celebrating and dancing on the ruins of Saudi destruction in a demonstration that is also a challenge to the machine of death.
“Nothing will appease us except that Saudi Arabia and the UAE leave our home.” — Yemeni grandfather in Shabwa province
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
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.
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
“ I’ve seen too much not to speak out and I’d rather sleep peacefully in a cell than stay silent for a paycheck” — Former British Soldier Ahmed Al-Babati
The war in Afghanistan appears to be drawing to a close. But Western atrocities in the Middle East continue, with the 20-year-old War on Terror estimated to have displaced over 37 million people
The Kingdom’s new policy has provoked resentment from Yemenis on all sides of the Saudi-led war, including Saudi allies inside the war-torn country.
IBB, YEMEN -- Yemeni lecturer and professor Mohammed Ali (a pseudonym, by his family’s request) was in a dazed state when he was suddenly told that he was being fired and would longer be allowed to enter the Saudi University at which he taught. Last week, the head of the university in Asir province in southern Saudi Arabia told Ali over the phone
Thousands of Yemenis held rallies in cities across the country demanding hunger not be used as a weapon by Saudi Arabia and the United States in order to bring locals to their knees.
ADEN, YEMEN -- "The prices are skyrocketing. We can't feed our children. They are starving,” Saher Abdu Salem, a government employee and a mother of five, said as she participated in a protest in Aden against Saudi Arabia and the government of ousted Yemeni President Abdul-Mansour al-Hadi. The protests took place at the Aden port this week in the
In Yemen’s complex humanitarian crisis, water scarcity, climate change impacts, and Saudi bombing of water facilities are interlinked.
SANA`A, YEMEN -- When the well ran dry, Abu Yahya al-Hamdani, who provides water to many residents of the Saruf neighborhood in northeastern Sana`a, had no warning. Last week, the water table dipped lower in his water well and the pump began to suck air. For the families in the neighborhood, to whom the danger of water shortage suddenly became
