Text Kristen Gelineau | Illustrations Peter Hamlin | Photos Wong Maye-E
Photos Wong Maye-E | Text Kristen Gelineau
Photos Dar Yasin | Text Dar Yasin and Julhas Alam
Photos Bernat Armangue | Text Muneeza Naqvi
Text Muneeza Naqvi | Photos Suvra Kanti Das, Bernat Armangué and Mushfiqul Alam
Illustrations Peter Hamlin | Text Maggie Michael and Maad Al-Zikry
A Yemeni boy one morning heard that al-Qaida militants were giving away free motorcycles, so he ran off with a friend to get one. His family went to find him, as U.S. drones flew overhead hunting for militants. One family gets caught in the middle.
Photos Hammadi Issa | Text Maggie Michael
In a remote pocket of northern Yemen, many families with starving children have nothing to eat but the leaves of a local vine, boiled into a sour, acidic green paste. International aid agencies have been caught off guard by the extent of the suffering there as parents and children waste away.
AP finds US allies in Yemen struck deals with al-Qaida, use its militants in fight against rebels.
Photos and Text Nariman El-Mofty
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.
Photos and text Nariman El-Mofty
Two young Yemenis fought to defend their home city of Aden from advancing rebels in one of the key, turning-point battles of the civil war, but now they are jobless and hopeless.
Photos Nariman El-Mofty | Text Maggie Michael and Lee Keath | Video Maad al-Zikry
Follow AP’s travels to areas most at risk of famine
Photos Nariman El-Mofty | Text Maggie Michael | Video Maad al-Zikry
An in-depth look at how families struggle with hunger
Photos Nariman El-Mofty | Text Maggie Michael | Video Maad al-Zikry
Meet Hagar Yahia, a Yemeni woman working to keep her family alive
Photos Kin Cheung | Text Kin Cheung and Pan Pylas