Taiz
Yemen’s Mourning Feed
As fighting intensified this fall, Yemenis turned Facebook into a running record of the dead. Hundreds of posts trace the lives of students and graduates who felt they had no choice but to take up arms.
The Battle for Taiz
Yemen’s southwestern Taiz governorate has been a vital center of resistance to the Houthis for over a decade. If the group consolidates its hold on the area and takes the city of Taiz itself, the effects for the country could be lasting and profound.
The Festering Wounds of Yemen’s Taiz
Despite the calm, one local official told me, the humanitarian situation was in many ways worse than it was during the worst days of the war: As peoples’ savings have dried up, the informal social solidarity networks that kept many out of poverty have dried up with them.