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For our subscribers: Major changes to PolGeoNow’s Yemeni civil war territorial control map, as southern separatists break rank with Hadi government and seize control of much of the country’s south. 

Mansour Ahmed Al-Mansour.

:: An independent assessment panel on Yemen found airstrikes launched by the Saudi-led coalition fully justified.

The coalition complied with military rules of engagement and international humanitarian laws, the panel said.

The coalition on Sunday renewed its call to international agencies to sit “face to face” to discuss untrue reports of civilian casualties and…

Residents in the city of Taiz must risk their lives to seek medical care. The conflict, which has been active since March 2015, has included the bombing of hospitals, gunfire directed at ambulances, and the harassment of health workers. Today, there are no public hospitals in Taiz city or its surroundings that are fully open and functioning.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works on both sides of the front lines in Taiz, running a trauma center for war-wounded and a mother and child hospital in the Al-Houban neighborhood. MSF also supports departments in four hospitals inside the city center, two of them for emergency treatment of the wounded and the others supporting maternal and pediatric health care.