On Dec. 12, 2013, shortly before the sun dipped behind the mountains
and left a handful of modest stone-built homes and grazing goats in a
fading silhouette, the ground shook. Across the valley, black smoke
billowed into the sky. In the moments it took for the repeated
explosions to echo from beyond the dry riverbed, the lives of scores of
men, women and children in the Yemeni village of Jishm were shattered....