Far From the War, Yemen's Remote Mountain Villages

2. Reuters photographer Abduljabbar Zeyad recently traveled to
western Yemen to photograph the lives of some of these villagers as
they work, study, and play, high on Dhalamlam Mountain.
For nearly two years now, Yemen has been torn by a ferocious war
involving rebel forces, extremist groups, government militias, and
foreign bombing campaigns. For the majority of Yemenis who live in
the countryside, far from the centers of fighting, life was difficult
to begin with, and for many, the war has had little impact.

3. A boy stands on the roof
of a pond in the
mountains, in the
Jafariya district of the
western province of
Raymah, Yemen, on June
2, 2016

4. A man carries food supplies on a donkey to Dhalamlam Mountain in Yemen on June 2, 2016.

5. Boys swim in a pond in the Yemeni mountains on June 2, 2016

6. A cable car operator uses a
vehicle engine to run the
cable car that carries people
and supplies up to
Dhalamlam Mountain on
May 20, 2016.

7. Houses dot the mountainsides in the Jafariya district of Raymah Province, Yemen, on May 21, 2016.

8. A cable car carries supplies to Dhalamlam Mountain on May 20, 2016.

9. A man rides a cable car that carries people and supplies up Dhalamlam Mountain on May 31, 2016.

10. A Yemeni beekeeper checks his beehives in the mountains on May 21, 2016.

11. Men work on a farm on Dhalamlam Mountain on May 21, 2016.

12. Boys sit on the edge of
the roof of their house in
the mountains, in the
Jafariya district of the
western province of
Raymah, Yemen, on May
31, 2016

13. People shop at a market in the mountains of Yemen on June 3, 2016.

14. A Yemeni woman shops at a market in the mountains on May 20, 2016.

15. A woman walks along a path on Dhalamlam Mountain on June 2, 2016.

16. A girl plays on a swing near
her house in the mountains in
Yemen's western province of
Raymah on June 3, 2016.

17. A teacher explains a subject to pupils in a school in Yemen's Jafariya district on May 21, 2016.

18. A girl sits on the ground on Dhalamlam Mountain on June 1, 2016.

19. A man prays at a mosque on Dhalamlam Mountain on June 1, 2016.

20. A girl sits on the roof of her house on Dhalamlam Mountain on June 1, 2016

21. A woman uses a stone grinder to make flour in her house in the mountains on May 21, 2016.

22. A boy carries a gas canister on a road to Dhalamlam Mountain on May 20, 2016

23. A boy sits on the roof of a house on Dhalamlam Mountain, in the Jafariya
district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen, on June 2, 2016

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All Photos By Abduljabbar Zeyad / Reuters