Yemen's Dirty War

Details of deals between US-backed coalition, Yemen al-Qaida

By MAGGIE MICHAELAugust 6, 2018 GMT

SHABWA, Yemen (AP) — The U.S.-backed coalition's string of secret deals with al-Qaida to withdraw from areas the militants controlled in southern Yemen focused on three main areas — the city of Mukalla and the provinces of Abyan and Shabwa, an Associated Press investigation found.

FILE - In this July 1, 2017 file photo, a man is treated for suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. An Associated Press investigation finds that Yemen’s massive cholera epidemic was aggravated by corruption and official intransigence. The investigation has found that both the Iranian-backed Houthis rebels and their main adversary in the war -- the U.S.- and Saudi-backed government that controls southern Yemen -- impeded efforts by relief groups to stem the epidemic. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

StoryVaccines blocked as deadly cholera raged across Yemen

A woman sits with her baby inside a shelter for displaced persons in Ibb, Yemen, in this Aug. 3, 2018 photo. An AP investigation found that large amounts of international food aid is making into the country, but once there, the food often isn’t getting to people who need it most. Factions on all sides of the conflict have kept food from communities not in their favor, diverted it to front-line combat units or sold it for profit on the black market, according to public records, confidential documents and interviews with aid workers, officials and average citizens. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

StoryAP Investigation: Fighters siphon off food as Yemenis starve

In this Aug. 3, 2018 photo, a woman walks through Ibb, Yemen. Travelling across Yemen, an Associated Press team found "in-between" moments everywhere _ Yemenis fitting their normal lives in between the destruction wreaked by four years of civil war. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Photo essayPostcards from Yemen

In this Aug. 25, 2018 photo, severely malnourished infant Zahra is changed by her mother, right, in the village of al-Mashradah, Aslam, Hajjah, Yemen. Yemen’s civil war has wrecked the impoverished country’s already fragile ability to feed its population. Around 2.9 million women and children are acutely malnourished; another 400,000 children are fighting for their lives only a step away from starvation. (AP Photo/Hammadi Issa)

StoryIsolated and unseen, Yemenis eat leaves to stave off famine

A drawing of prisoners being transported in a pickup truck to an Emirati-run prison in Yemen. The Arabic reads: “This is how they transport the prisoners from and to the coalition. Blindfolded and handcuffed in the back of a Land Cruiser pickup in large numbers as if they are animals and under gunpoint.”

StoryDetainees held without charges decry Emiratis’ sexual abuses

StoryIn Yemen’s dirty war, U.S. allies cut deals with al-Qaida

In this Feb. 9, 2018 photo, Hagar Yahia holds her daughter Awsaf, a thin 5-year-old who is getting no more than 800 calories a day from bread and tea, half the normal amount for a girl her age, in Abyan, Yemen. Yahia, a mother of eight breaks down in tears talking about her family's deprivation. Late last year, as fighting closed in on Hayis, they fled more than 200 miles, eventually ending up in the village of Red Star on the Arabian Sea coast in the south. Ever since, they've struggled to find enough food. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

StoryOne meal a day: Yemeni mothers try to feed their families

In this Feb. 15, 2018 photo, Awsaf, a thin 5-year-old who is getting no more than 800 calories a day from bread and tea, half the normal amount for a girl her age, drinks tea, in Abyan, Yemen. Hagar Yahia, a mother of eight breaks down in tears talking about her family's deprivation. Late last year, as fighting closed in on Hayis, they fled more than 200 miles, eventually ending up in the village of Red Star on the Arabian Sea coast in the south. Ever since, they've struggled to find enough food. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Photo Essay‘I don’t eat so they can’

StoryGeography of famine: A road trip across Yemen

In this Oct. 1, 2018, photo, a severely malnourished boy rests on a hospital bed at the Aslam Health Center, Hajjah, Yemen. Malnutrition, cholera, and other epidemic diseases like diphtheria ravaged through the displaced and the impoverished communities. The fighting in Hodeida, the Red Sea port seen as the lifeline of northern Yemen where 70 percent of the population lives, threaten to worsen the world's largest humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

StoryYemen's displaced live on bread crumbs, leaves

This Feb. 17, 2018, photo shows a damaged theme park in Aden, Yemen. The mood is eerie on the mostly empty streets of Aden, Yemen’s southern port city and designated seat of government that has suffered three years of civil war. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Photo EssayWar leaves Yemen’s Aden hollowed-out shadow of former self

In this Feb. 17, 2018 photo, 21 year-old Osama Ahmed, who fought during the '2015 battle of Aden' holds his rifle in his bedroom, at his home in Aden, Yemen. "As a Yemeni citizen you can't leave the country - we are listed as terrorists - we had dreams and wanted to do things with our lives. There are no opportunity for the youth, we just want to live in peace without violence," he said. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Photo EssayIn Yemen’s Aden, a generation chewed up and spit out by war

AP journalists win Pulitzer for coverage of Yemen civil war

By DAVID B. CARUSOApril 15, 2019 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — A team of three Associated Press journalists won a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting Monday for their work documenting torture, graft and starvation in Yemen's brutal civil war.