Twenty years, $850 million in U.S. military aid and nearly 400 drone strikes later, Yemen is still paying the price for being drawn into the “war on terror.”
Safa Al Ahmad
Safa Al Ahmad is a Saudi journalist and documentary filmmaker. Over the past decade she's made several documentaries for FRONTLINE and the BBC about Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Her 2014 BBC documentary "Saudi's Secret Uprising" brought attention to government suppression of unreported popular protests in Saudi Arabia's Eastern province and her 2016 BBC and FRONTLINE documentary "Siege on Yemen" on the impact of the Saudi-led war on Yemen won two News and Documentary Emmy awards.