CAIRO (AP) — As word came of Houthi rebels advancing on Taiz, Weam Abdullah and her family decided it was time to leave Yemen’s third largest city. They had survived a yearslong siege by the rebels earlier in their country’s civil war, and they didn’t want to endure that again.
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In Yemen's Taiz, Um Rian has struggled to feed her children ever since the Houthis laid siege to the government-controlled city, choking a population already exhausted by more than a decade of war. The Iranian-backed group seized areas south of the city, the third largest in Yemen, in recent days, c…
CAIRO (AP) — As word came of Houthi rebels advancing on Taiz, Weam Abdullah and her family decided it was time to leave Yemen’s third largest city. They had survived a yearslong siege by the rebels earlier in their country’s civil war, and they didn’t want to endure that again.
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels are advancing on the Yemeni city of Taiz, the country's third-largest metropolis that had endured a yearslong siege during the nation's bloody civil war.