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Every day, as they hear the whine of the drones overhead, the Tuaiman family waits for Donald Trump to finish killing them. The drones used to hover about once a week over al-Rawdah, the Yemeni village where the family lives, sending…

YemenExtra the US cannot be the world’s “moral conscience” by any stretch of the imagination, as both its actions and inaction in Yemen, Iraq and Syria show a lack of basic compassion, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman…

Peter Oborne was named freelance of the year 2016 by the Online Media Awards for an article he wrote for Middle East Eye. He was British Press Awards Columnist of the Year 2013. He resigned as chief political columnist of the…

Before war came, Khalid Omar was only an occasional user of qat, sitting around with friends and chewing its narcotic leaves. Then he lost his well-paid job with an oil company in Shabwa province. In 2015 he lost his younger…

YemenExtra The presence of al-Qaeda fighters in Taiz is not new. For months now they have fought, shoulder to shoulder, with pro-government forces against the Houthi. Residents are accustomed to seeing their men move around the…

Baraa Shiban a Yemeni human rights activist. The UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, has just concluded a European tour, apparently meeting senior officials in London, Paris and Berlin before flying to Abu Dhabi to meet the…

 YemenExtra A.A   Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, special envoy to Yemen, said on Friday that the United Nations does not advocate a military operation in and around Yemen's Hodeidah port. The envoy, Ould Cheikh, told a panel…

YemenExtra M.A. The Yemeni revolutionaries in the Yemeni joint military seem to be loved my majority of their society as they are being constantly supported and supplied with necessities while in the battlefield. People of Bani Heshaish…

 YemenExtra A.A The Saudi and Sudanese air forces have staged joint wargames in Sudan, north of Khartoum,to boost their airstrikes in Yemen, dubbed “Blue Shield 1 . The two-week drills, which will last until April 12,…

YemenExtra M.A. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that over 1,800 Syrian civilians have received humanitarian aid from their military across Syria. The aid was delivered to multiple settlements inside Syria, as part of…