The religious and cultural heritage being ruined by Yemen’s war

‘Anybody who follows the international media will be aware that some terrible harm has been done to the world’s spiritual and cultural heritage in the course of fighting in Syria and Iraq; and that some of this destruction is a result of deliberate efforts by Islamic State fighters to eliminate all structures which are out of step with their own narrow understanding of Sunni Islam.

But there is another country in the region where a sectarian civil war, with an international dimension, is wreaking major damage to religious and architectural treasures, and that conflict is getting much less international attention. The country is Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition of Sunni Arab states has been waging war by air and land against the Houthis, a Shia rebel group who control the capital, Sana’a, and are denounced by their foes as a proxy for Iran.’

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