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YemenExtra By: Ryan Connelly Holmes Three years after a Saudi-led coalition began to bomb Yemen, the country is hanging on by a thread, workers for international aid organizations say. The country’s protracted war has decimated…

Ahmed AbdulKareem  a Yemeni journalist. He covers the war in Yemen for MintPress News, YemenExtra and local Yemeni media SANA’A, YEMEN — The late morning sun conspired with a cloudless blue sky to frame the Al Tahir commercial…

Randi Nord  a journalist and co-founder of Geopolitics Alert. She covers U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East with a special focus on Yemen What Qualifies as Genocide? There isn’t a concrete definition of the word “genocide” and,…

“The Saudis are trying to use a brick to smash an anvil. They will destroy themselves, not Yemen That’s how one of Yemen’s more prominent tribal sheikhs described Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen. The war will enter its fourth year this…

Whitney Webb Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News and a contributor to Ben Swann's Truth in Media. Her work has appeared on Global Research, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has also made radio…

YemenExtra SH.A. By: Mehdi Hasan Dear fans of Mohammed bin Salman, I know you’ve been busy wining and dining the crown prince of Saudi Arabia on his recent tour of the United States, but have you got a spare few minutes for me?…

YemenExtra By: Daniel Larison The Washington Post calls on the Trump administration to pressure the Saudi coalition to halt its offensive against the port of Hodeidah: The world’s worst humanitarian crisis may be about to get much…

YemenExtra By: Editorial Board of The Washington Post, THE WORLD’S worst humanitarian crisis may be about to get much worse. In Yemen, where some 8 million people are on the brink of famine and the worst cholera epidemic in history is…

Sudan's political crisis is sliding into a dangerous phase. Its economy is on the verge of collapse. The price of food and other basic commodities is rising by the day, worsening living conditions for ordinary Sudanese and stirring growing…

YemenExtra By: DANIEL LARISON Reuters reports that Saudi coalition forces are massing for an assault on the port city of Hodeidah: It was unclear if Saudi Arabia’s Western allies, which have come under increasing scrutiny for arms…