Yemen's State Within a Failed State

A rare journey to the rugged province of Saada, the battle-torn region that has fallen out of the government's control during the past year.

PHOTOS BY TOM FINN | JANUARY 27, 2012

Years of air raids have virtually demolished Saada's old town, once a proud symbol of Yemen's ancient architecture. Hundreds of houses, their mud-brick walls pocked with bullets, lie empty -- a tangle of floorboards, rusting refrigerators, and broken stairwells.

 

Tom Finn is a freelance journalist based in Sanaa, Yemen.