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Gerald Feierstein

A girl holds her sister outside their family's hut at the Shawqaba camp for internally displaced people who were forced to leave their villages by the war in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah March 12, 2016

Where the US fell down in Yemen, as war clouds gathered

May 25, 2016Conflict

The US ambassador to Yemen before the war remains hopeful about Yemen’s future. But Yemenis we speak with want the US to respond to Yemen’s troubles right now.

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