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Tyler Hicks (July 9, 1969)

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Tyler Hicks (July 9, 1969)

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Land mines block Saudi-led assault in Yemen, killing civilians

Hundreds of thousands of land mines have stymied the Saudi-led forces in Yemen, and could pose a danger to civilians for decades to come.

Desperate to break through enemy lines, the Saudi-backed forces fighting in Yemen are sending untrained soldiers to clear minefields, sometimes using only their bayonets.

“I removed two and the third one exploded,” said Sultan Hamad, a 39-year-old Yemeni soldier who lost a leg clearing mines on the front line near Marib, an ancient city in central Yemen. He was among more than a half dozen soldiers waiting at a clinic in Marib to be fitted for prosthetic limbs.

Nearly four years after Saudi Arabia plunged into Yemen’s civil war, Saudi and Yemeni commanders say that hundreds of thousands of unmarked land mines planted by their opponents, the Houthis, have emerged as perhaps their most formidable defense.

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The Photo of the Yemeni Girl

The Photo of the Yemeni Girl

In the three years that Saudi Arabia, supported by the United States, has been at war with the Houthis in Yemen, very few journalists have been allowed into the country to document what’s happening there. The New York Times journalist Tyler Hicks is one. This is the story of how he came to take a photograph of Amal Hussain that drew international attention to the country’s plight.

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The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War

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The Truth Is Hard To Find – Tyler Hicks

Directed by Darren Aronofsky for The New York Times

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Tyler Hicks.

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New “Relax…It’s Only Flesh” fashion editorial up now at DNA mag mexico 📷 by #CamilaSaldarriaga words by Francesca Beltran @franbeltran and modelling by Tyler Hicks @artbytylerhi