Yemeni pro-government forces patrol during an offensive against Shiite rebels in Yemen’s western Dhubab district, about 30 kms north of the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, on January 9, 2017. What began in 2011 as a popular uprising has now become a catastrophe, with 10,000 dead and a famine looming At the tip of the Arabian peninsula, Yemen’s disastrous war has been raging for nearly two years.