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On Yemen's desert battlefield, a war with global consequences is being waged

On Yemen's desert battlefield, a war with global consequences is being waged
BBC News Monday 12 October 2026, 16:28 UTC 1 min read
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Yemen's entrenched civil war is now impossible to ignore. But in operating rooms in its port city of Aden, geopolitics feels remote.

Yemen's entrenched civil war is now impossible to ignore. But in operating rooms in its port city of Aden, geopolitics feels remote.
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