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Gunmen in Yemen shoot dead Aden’s top anti-narcotics officer

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Unidentified assailants kill well-known cleric in Yemen

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

In Yemen, 46 detainees released from UAE-controlled prison

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows a drawing of a prisoner being abused at a prison in Yemen run by the United Arab Emirates. Arabic from right to left reads: &quot;Anti-terrorism,&quot; &quot;Innocent citizen,&quot; and &quot;Real terrorism behind their back, they don't look at.&quot; With hugs and kisses, family and friends of a Yemeni actor celebrated Monday, June 25, 2018, after he and at least three other detainees were freed from UAE-controlled prisons in southern Yemen where they had been held without charges for nearly a year. (AP Photo, File)

Yemen detainees free days after AP report on UAE-run prisons

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows a drawing of a prisoner being abused at a prison in Yemen run by the United Arab Emirates. Arabic from right to left reads: &quot;Anti-terrorism,&quot; &quot;Innocent citizen,&quot; and &quot;Real terrorism behind their back, they don't look at.&quot; With hugs and kisses, family and friends of a Yemeni actor celebrated Monday, June 25, 2018, after he and at least three other detainees were freed from UAE-controlled prisons in southern Yemen where they had been held without charges for nearly a year. (AP Photo, File)

Detainees released days after AP report on UAE-run prisons

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

This undated photo obtained by The Associated Press shows a drawing of a detainee being abused at a prison in Yemen run by the United Arab Emirates. The Arabic reads: “This is how prisoners were forced to be naked.” Emirati officers are sexually torturing and abusing hundreds of Yemeni men held without trial in secret prisons run by the key U.S. ally. Detainees smuggled letters and drawings to the AP, detailing their latest horrors of mass sexual abuses and humiliations at the hands of Emirati officers. (AP Photo)

Yemeni prisoners say Emirati officers sexually torture them

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

This undated photo obtained by The Associated Press shows a drawing of a detainee being abused at a prison in Yemen run by the United Arab Emirates. The Arabic reads: “This is how prisoners were forced to be naked.” Emirati officers are sexually torturing and abusing hundreds of Yemeni men held without trial in secret prisons run by the key U.S. ally. Detainees smuggled letters and drawings to the AP, detailing their latest horrors of mass sexual abuses and humiliations at the hands of Emirati officers. (AP Photo)

Sexual abuses rampant in UAE-controlled prisons in Yemen

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Jun. 9, 2017 file photo, people stand on the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen. More than two years of civil war have led to continually compounding disasters in Yemen. Fighting rages on in a deadly stalemate, the economy has been bombed into ruins, hunger is widespread, and a new misery has been added: Cholera, the world’s biggest current outbreak with more than 200,000 cases. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Mohammed Al Samawi recounts escape from Yemen civil war in ‘The Fox Hunt’ memoir

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

Car bombs in Yemen’s Aden kill 6, wound dozens: officials

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general, WHO (center), listens to the head doctor of Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. (Courtesy WHO) ** FILE **

U.N. leaders visit Yemen to issue plea for help in humanitarian crisis

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

Yemeni businessman Ali Awad Habib recounts the torment he suffered in prison, where he said he was beaten with wires and wooden clubs and given electrical shocks, in this May 8, 2017 phot in Aden, Yemen. Habib was detained for weeks after Emirati-backed forces hunting for al-Qaida members raided his family’s businesses, arresting him and several of his relatives. Habib’s father, like an unknown number of other detainees, has been sent to a base of the United Arab Emirates across the Red Sea in Eritrea. (AP Photo/Maad El Zikry)

Inside Yemen’s secret prisons: ‘We could hear the screams’

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Fighters against Shiite rebels known as Houthis gather at a street in the port city of Aden, Yemen, Thursday, July 16, 2015. Saudi-backed Yemeni troops and fighters have driven Shiite rebels out of two major neighborhoods in the southern port city of Aden, Thursday, prompting street celebrations by residents after weeks of fierce fighting. (AP Photo/Abo Muhammed)

Shiite rebel shelling in Yemen near Aden kills at least 45

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, March 20, 2015 file photo, militiamen loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi ride on an army vehicle on a street in Aden, Yemen. Aden, once Yemen&#8217;s commercial hub, has been hit by a month of unrelenting urban warfare as Shiite rebels and their allies in the military try to capture the city, battling with local militiamen as warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition pound the city with airstrikes trying to stop the rebel advance. (AP Photo/Yassir Hassan, File)

Arab coalition ‘reconnaissance’ troops land in Yemen

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Iran sends navy vessels near Yemen amid airstrikes: report

By Ahmed Al-Haj and Brian Rohan - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Tuesday, April 7, 2015, and released by the semi-official Fars News Agency, Iranian warship Alborz prepares before leaving Iran's waters. (Associated Press/Fars News Agency, Mahdi Marizad) **FILE**

Iran sends navy vessels to waters off Yemen, raising stakes

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Yemenis stand amid the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in a village near Sanaa, Yemen, in this Saturday, April 4, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

U.N. agency says at least 74 children killed in Yemen fighting

Associated Press

People gather near the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi airstrikes near the airport in Sanaa, Yemen, in this Tuesday, March 31, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Al Qaeda frees 300 inmates from Yemeni jail

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, March 21, 2015 file photo, Members of a militia group loyal to Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, known as the Popular Committees, chew qat, Yemen's favorite drug, as they sit next to their tank, guarding a major intersection in Aden, Yemen. Yemen’s Shiite rebels, backed by supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, have seized the third-largest city after capturing the capital Sanaa in September, effectively splitting the country in half and hindering U.S. efforts to combat a powerful local al-Qaida affiliate. Hadi, a close U.S. ally, fled house arrest in Sanaa last month and has set up a base in the port city of Aden, the former capital of the once-independent south. (AP Photo/Hamza Hendawi, File)

NEWS GUIDE: The crisis in Yemen

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press