Yemen: What's Happening Now

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• Outrage over civilian deaths in Yemen has focused on airstrikes. But at sea, the Saudi-led coalition is suspected of attacking many fishing boats, killing dozens of people.

  

  The New York Times

  

  In Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen, No Refuge on Land or Sea

  The New York Times - Declan Walsh

  KHOKHA, Yemen — The first sign of trouble was the helicopter that hovered over the small Yemeni fishing trawler as it cut across the Red Sea. Then a warship appeared, its guns pointed at the boat. Bullets thumped into the water around the boat, the Afaq, then rippled through its flimsy wooden hull. …

• Already the region’s poorest nation before the war, Yemen now faces a potential famine, driven by punitive economic measures directed by a Saudi-led coalition and Yemeni government forces at the Houthis. How you can help.

  

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  Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis: How to Help

  The New York Times - Aodhan Beirne

  The unsettling images of emaciated children staring up from hospital beds drew strong reaction from readers this week when The New York Times published “The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War,” an interactive article documenting the catastrophic effects of the civil war in Yemen. Three years of fighting …

• When a bomb like this explodes, it doesn’t just kill people; it rearranges them.

  

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  From Arizona to Yemen: The Journey of an American Bomb

  The New York Times - Jeffrey E. Stern

  This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center Just before midnight, a businessman named Rabee’a was on the phone, trying to calm his friend down. Rabee’a owned a drill rig, and his friend had heard stories from elsewhere in Yemen about jets bombing well sites. It was Sept. 10, …

• Nick Kristoff reports from Yemen, where 12 million people are on the brink of starvation and where the U.S. and Saudi Arabia don't want journalists to go.

  

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  Your Tax Dollars Help Starve Children

  The New York Times - Nicholas Kristof

  Yaqoob Walid, 8, who is suffering from malnutrition that is so prolonged it may prove fatal, has been in the hospital for more than a month.Giles Clarke for The New York Times By Nicholas Kristof ADEN, Yemen — He is an 8-year-old boy who is starving and has limbs like sticks, but Yaqoob Walid doesn’t …

• The Senate voted to withdraw U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, a stinging rebuke of President Trump's defense of the kingdom.

  

  The New York Times

  

  Senate Votes to End Aid for Yemen Fight Over Khashoggi Killing and Saudis’ War Aims

  The New York Times - Julie Hirschfeld Davis

  WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Thursday to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen in the strongest show of bipartisan defiance against President Trump’s defense of the kingdom over the killing of a dissident journalist. The 56-to-41 vote was a rare move by the Senate to …

• Reporter Declan Walsh and photographer Tyler Hicks traveled to a field hospital in Yemen to see "what Prince Mohammed’s war looks like up close, from one side, among those Yemenis who are fighting and dying in it."

  

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  This is the front line of Saudi Arabia’s invisible war

  The New York Times - Declan Walsh

  A battlewagon roars through the gates of a beach villa on Yemen’s Red Sea coast, a luxury property with a 20-foot chandelier and indoor pool, now repurposed as a busy field hospital. Young fighters, drenched in the sweat of the battle, leap from the pickup and hoist a wounded comrade, blood …