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This Feb. 13, 2018, file photo shows a damaged vehicle form the 2015 battle of Aden in Yemen. Violence, famine and disease have ravished the country of some 28 million, which was already the Arab worlds 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)

Group urges U.N. to warn parties in Yemen war over aid access

Associated Press

In this Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, file photo, a Yemeni soldier allied to the country's internationally recognized government unslings his machine gun on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen's yearslong war between Shiite rebels and a Saudi-led coalition backing its exiled government has escalated with an assault on the insurgent-held port city of Hodeida. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Saudi-led forces battle Shiite rebels south of Hodeida

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2017, file photo, a tribesman loyal to the Houthi rebels, right, chants slogans during a gathering aimed at mobilizing more fighters into battlefronts to fight pro-government forces in several Yemeni cities, in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen's yearslong war between Shiite rebels and a Saudi-led coalition backing its exiled government has escalated with an assault on the insurgent-held port city of Hodeida. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

AP News Guide: What to know about Yemen’s yearslong war

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this Feb. 12, 2018, file photo, Saudi-backed forces, part of Ahmed al-Kawkabani's, southern resistance unit in Hodeida, patrol in Hodeida, Yemen. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) ** FILE **

Saudi-led forces begin assault on Yemen port city of Hodeida

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2018 file photo, Saudi-backed forces, part of Ahmed al-Kawkabani's, southern resistance unit in Hodeida, patrol in Hodeida, Yemen. The Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's exiled government began an assault Wednesday, June 13, 2018 on the port city of Hodeida, the main entry point for food in a country already teetering on the brink of famine.(AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File) **FILE**

Saudis, allies launch long-awaited, high-risk assault on key Yemeni port

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Illustration on U.S. forces fighting for Saudi interests in Yemen by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

It’s not in America’s interests to fight for Saudi Arabia

By Daniel L. Davis

Supporters of Shiite Houthi rebels attend a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, in this file photo. The killing of Yemen's ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh by the country's Shiite rebels on Monday, as their alliance crumbled, has thrown the nearly three-year civil war into unpredictable new chaos. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) **FILE**

White House condemns Iran-backed Houthi missile strikes on Red Sea cargo ships

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

A man walks down the stormy beach at a hotel in Salalah, Oman, Friday, May 25, 2018. Cyclone Mekunu will be &quot;extremely severe&quot; when it crashes into the Arabian Peninsula this weekend, meteorologists warned Friday, after earlier thrashing the Yemeni island of Socotra. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Powerful cyclone strikes Oman, Yemen; 6 dead, 30 missing

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

House calls for Pentagon probe of alleged torture in Yemen

Associated Press

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir speaks during the extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 18, 2018. Turkey has called on Muslim nations to stand with Palestinians and to work to stop countries joining the United States in relocating their Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (Presidential Press Service/Pool via AP)

Sudan’s president underscores commitment to Yemen campaign

Associated Press

A man looks at damaged buildings after deadly airstrikes in and near the presidential compound, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, May. 7, 2018. Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Shiite rebels targeted the presidency building in the heart of the Yemeni capital on Monday, leaving at least six people dead and some 30 wounded, according to health officials. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) ** FILE **

Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen killed in suspected U.S. airstrike

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Yemen’s Iran-allied rebels fire missiles at Saudi capital

By BY ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI - Associated Press

Iranian demonstrators burn representations of the U.S. flag during a protest in front of the former U.S. Embassy in response to President Donald Trump's decision Tuesday to pull out of the nuclear deal and renew sanctions, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, May 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran regime change seen as goal of Trump sanctions, demands

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A doctor shows on her mobile phone a photo of Fadl, an 8-month-old Yemeni boy taken in his last days before he starved to death, in this Feb. 10, 2018 photo at a hospital in Mocha, Yemen. Fadl’s mother gave birth to him under a tree as she fled fighting, and ever since she struggled to get him enough food. Eight months later, at the time of his death, the baby boy weighed 2.9 kilograms (6 pounds), a third of the normal weight for his age. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

In Yemen, a mother’s quest to save her baby from starvation

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Sudan reconsidering role in Saudi-led Yemen campaign

Associated Press

Umm Mizrah, a 25-year-old Yemeni woman, holds her son Mizrah on a scale in Al-Sadaqa Hospital in the southern Yemen city of Aden in this Feb. 13, 2018 photo. Rageh, who is nearly into the second trimester of her pregnancy, weighed 38 kilograms (84 pounds), severely underweight. Mizrah, who was 17 months old, weighed 5.8 kilograms (12.8 pounds), around half the normal weight for his age. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

One meal a day: Yemeni mothers try to feed their families

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Head of ICRC Operations for the Middle East Robert Mardini speaks during a press conference on the humanitarian challenges in Yemen, at the International Red Cross, ICRC, headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, April 22, 2015. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP) ** FILE **

Red Cross worker killed in Yemen highlights danger in world’s worst humanitarian crisis: U.N.

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

Yemen Red Cross: More dying from indirect effects of war

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Satellite images show the Barzah Research and Development Center in Syria on Friday (top) and on Sunday. The parameters of presidential powers for such a strike are far from clear. Story, A6. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump’s Syria strike authority under debate in Congress

By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 7, 2012 file photo, the sun sets over an old Saudi archaeological palace in Al-Diriyah city on the northwestern outskirts of the Saudi capital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi forces said Wednesday, April 11, 2018 they have intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Shiite rebels, directed at the kingdom's capital, Riyadh. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Yemeni rebel missiles, drones target Saudi capital, south

By AYA BATRAWY and ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI - Associated Press