This story appears in the September 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The man was crucified, Um Mohammed said, her black eyes peering out through the slit in her black niqab. She was a ...

Aid groups have raised alarm with more than 23 million people -- more than two-thirds of Yemen's population -- dependent on aid. While the government-run Taez psychiatric hospital has space for ...

militias include separatists seeking independence for south Yemen and factions who oppose the idea. The stalemate has produced an unrelenting humanitarian crisis, with at least 8.4 million people ...

Children and young people - it's terribly sad," he told the ... When it united with South Yemen in 1990 he became president of the new republic. The Houthis, who champion Yemen's Zaidi Shia ...

An estimated five million people are on the edge of starvation. Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council is witnessing the extent of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen right now: What is ...