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I dug deep into the operations of "Madad News Agency” as it sought to establish its presence among local Yemeni communities, while projecting a broader message to Yemenis online. YOU AREN’T HEARING ABOUT YEMEN’S BIGGEST PROBLEMS Every day headlines highlight Yemen’s growing Al Qaeda threat, the terror plots to attack the U.S. homeland hatched from within its borders and America’s escalating campaign of air strikes in the country. But some of Yemen’s biggest challenges — many of which helped spark its democracy protests in 2011 — are largely absent from Western media. More conventional domestic and economic issues may define Yemen’s stability, and in doing so define regional and global security. From severe droughts to a secessionist movements and proxy war, I broke down four of Yemen’s biggest problems few Americans ever hear about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/21ff1f7c-f79b-42f2-8a5f-d50ee81c742b/Explore+the+Docs+Image.PNG Journalism - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1632560768110-ZTDWE0RE0PZVMNSF917Z/AzmatInKandahar.JPG Journalism https://azmatzahra.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-02-06 https://azmatzahra.com/photography daily 0.75 2022-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1511714805752-WQ8MA2W5WAARVGF9KHOD/2-3+Railroad+Station+Strikes+Rawa%2C+Survivor+of+Dec+2015+Mosque+Strike+1.JPG Photos - Qaiyarah, Iraq (Azmat Khan) Rawa, the lone survivor of an airstrike that killed her parents and siblings in Qaiyara, Iraq on March 19, 2016. Although the U.S.-led Coalition confirmed that it had carried out an airstrike "10 meters away against a known ISIS weapons cache,” a subsequent civilian casualty assessment found the allegation of civilian casualties to be “noncredible” on the basis that there was “insufficient information to determine if the structures in the immediate area of the strike were residential in nature, as stated in the allegation." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1641324719425-UES5KQT0WW4QUX37ILKK/P1013038.jpg Photos - Taza Khurmatu, Iraq (Azmat Khan) In March 2016, in a lush farming village south of Kirkuk’s oil fields, seven mortars crashed into a residential neighborhood in the Iraqi town of Taza. The shells had become something of a daily occurrence in Taza, which lays on a frontline, besieged by a neighboring ISIS stronghold for nearly two years. But on that day Zaineb Akbar Saleem could smell something different: the stench of rotting garlic. As she rushed from her home to the grass where her daughter Fatima had been playing, pungent black smoke filled her throat, stung her eyes, and burned her skin. Taza doctors remember precisely how the two-and a half-year-old girl arrived at their clinic: eyelids sealed shut, hair slicked back, and skin glimmering, as though freshly coated with a patina of oil. They washed Fatima, knowing little about what had caused her injuries or those of dozens of other patients that had arrived at the ward. In the hours that followed, anyone who so much as touched the afflicted developed wounds of their own. As word spread that it was a chemical attack, local doctors conceded defeat and sent hundreds of Taza patients to more advanced hospitals in Kirkuk. In a day, Fatima’s skin turned black; in two, she drew her last breaths. Fatima was one of three people killed by what is ISIS’s most advanced chemical attack to date. When I arrived in Taza just a few weeks after, I found a village still reeling from the effects. Residents were still coming to the local clinic to get treated, including this baby, whose rash continues to afflict him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455260733720-U2EY3VETDMS7BVDS6ZTG/IMG_2017.JPG Photos - Nahre Karez, Kandahar Afghanistan (Azmat Khan) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455232749579-ESFESWQD41IAJQUFFT5E/IMG_2127.JPG Photos - Rohabad School, Kandahar Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455232508610-RTF99TKYMLKU6ES7GVP4/IMG_1854.JPG Photos - Sher Mohammad Hotak School, Zhari Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455261455070-X6CCVQW02BETIXEBNFOX/IMG_2015.JPG Photos - Nahre Karez School, Zhari Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1480664031123-YYXFGLOXUQ7KBUR9RDUC/IMG_6284+%281%29.JPG Photos - Shrine of Abbas — Karbala, Iraq Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455234555717-CWZVV72YSCFRTI92I3LO/IMG_1799.JPG Photos - Deh-e-Bagh School, Kandahar Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455259179034-CCAG0K2M8VC0JQ6G20XU/458827_10102151070524243_1072428952_o.jpg Photos - Inle Lake, Burma Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1480664032820-MYRDYUWEUDS15YML83MK/8B689DE1-1637-40C5-A377-00D52DDE7904.JPG Photos - Dera Sahib Gurdwara — Lahore, Pakistan Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455259202676-4QMU6JQ5XYQYIMYE6886/241931_10102151070519253_92617629_o.jpg Photos - Inle Lake, Burma Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455232114345-DA773JB0CKFXMBMU9GUP/IMG_1478.JPG Photos - Kabuli palau Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455234200117-KATS7GQ8GL7RSDINKLK2/IMG_1628.JPG Photos - Fried fish in Kunar province Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455259203359-RJBV4GB2MDSDD6EPBGTZ/410779_10102151070589113_770228711_o.jpg Photos - Inle Lake, Burma Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455232475720-I1GI5JLUOKIIASLLBVMG/IMG_1642.JPG Photos - Wardak province Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455234047321-F2AJZV6X0EWK5L6E04MB/IMG_1550.JPG Photos - Dar-e-Nur, Nangarhar province Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455232562147-MOI6SYICLGJHY1WC47SA/IMG_1873.JPG Photos - Mohammed Sarhadi, Kandahar City Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455232832165-UC6A6JJXKU61JWTVDVE2/IMG_2280.JPG Photos - Saffron, Kabul Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455232920553-BSG7J3G6TBHA13LTRORC/IMG_2304.JPG Photos - A mother and daughter, Kabul Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455234250008-AFAKE5MSDPLZZD5KRA5P/IMG_1527.JPG Photos - Jalalabad, Nangarhar province Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455234201264-830SCK3TD40CDRKNF7ND/IMG_3258.JPG Photos - Deh-e-Bagh mosque, Kandahar Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455259179229-WWZH1UU69R5MY5CDOU35/615182_10102151069596103_1796223407_o.jpg Photos - Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455259217987-ZSTHBCAZTTZU42OXIUYD/287976_10102151070773743_1959545473_o.jpg Photos - Lotus fabric, Burma Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455259892834-9QAPM7NVUI9C0FS4MRSD/1909825_528389351363_830_n.jpg Photos - Noon Bagla, Pakistan-administered Kashmir Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455259922973-U2GVHGEUIJDDL8VWHHV7/1930064_618237295363_8611_n.jpg Photos - Zaineb's shrine, Damascus Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1480664031544-FGRYVVMKSL6GAM2UOJIQ/IMG_6576.JPG Photos - Taza Khurmatu, Iraq Azmat Khan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1455255038773-FIMWGVCZOWODW73IHB1N/IMG_3258.JPG Photos https://azmatzahra.com/subscribe daily 0.75 2018-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56bbd73320c647017ba39e77/1525278971025-MGG744R4GPFK7ELMQK3G/Screen+Shot+2018-05-02+at+12.35.41+PM.png Subscribe https://azmatzahra.com/embedding-in-afghanistan daily 0.75 2020-11-04 https://azmatzahra.com/scholarship daily 0.75 2025-09-12