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Letta Tayler

Letta Tayler is a senior terrorism and counterterrorism researcher at Human Rights Watch with an expertise in Yemen.

A boy gestures to damage on a house caused by an air strike last year that was targeting al Qaeda-linked militants, in the southern Yemeni town of Jaar February 1, 2013. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi)

Overlooked debacle overseas: U.S. drone strikes are ratcheting up

Letta Tayler
Muhammad al-Baidhani holds a photo of his father, Abdul Khaliq al-Bhaidani, who is held at Guantanamo without charge. (C) Letta Tayler, Human Rights

“I just want the U.S. to send my father home”

Letta Tayler
Destroyed houses in the mountainous area of Arhab, north of Sanaa, Yemen. (Reuters/Mohamed al-Sayaghi)

Losing Yemeni hearts and minds

Letta Tayler

You can’t go home (to Yemen) again

Letta Tayler