Peering through binoculars, a Yemeni commander scans a forbidding desert moonscape for lurking #Huthi rebels, who are ramping up a bloody offensive to seize the strategic oil-rich region of #Marib. The outcome of the scorched-earth battles raging around Marib city, the Saudi-backed #Yemeni government's last northern stronghold, could significantly alter the future course of a conflict now in its seventh year.
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