Ahmed Al-Haj, Author at Valley News

In this Feb. 12, 2018, photo, women walk past Saudi-led coalition backed forces, leading the campaign to take over Hodeida, as they patrol Mocha, a port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. Violence, famine and disease have ravished the country of some 28 million, which was already the Arab world’s poorest before the conflict began. The conflict pits a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition supporting the internationally recognized government, which has nominally relocated to Aden but largely lives in exile, against rebels known as Houthis. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Fighting Rages in Yemen Port City

by Ahmed Al-Haj Associated PressJune 17, 2018

Sanaa, Yemen — Saudi-led forces fought to retake the international airport of Yemen’s rebel-held port city of Hodeida, Yemeni officials and witnesses said on Saturday, as their Shiite Houthi rebel rivals denied the coalition had seized the facility…

This Feb. 11, 2018, photo shows a damaged clock due the ongoing war ahead of sunrise, in Aden, Yemen. The conflict in Yemen pits a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition supporting the internationally recognized government, which has nominally relocated to Aden but largely lives in exile, against rebels known as Houthis. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Saudi-Led Troops Battle Rebels

by Ahmed Al-Haj Associated PressJune 15, 2018

Saudi-Led Strike Kills 20 in Yemen

by Ahmed Al-Haj Associated PressApril 24, 2018

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2017 file photo, former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh speaks during a ceremony to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the founding of the Popular Conference Party, in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemenis in the war-torn country's capital crowded into basements overnight, Monday Dec. 4, 2017, as Saudi-led fighter jets pounded the positions of Houthi rebels, who are now fighting forces loyal to Saleh for control of the city. A Sanaa-based protection and advocacy adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council said Monday that the violence left aid workers trapped inside their homes and was "completely paralyzing humanitarian operations." (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Rebels Kill Yemen’s Strongman

by Ahmed Al-Haj Associated Press, and Maggie Michael Associated PressDecember 5, 2017