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Safa Al Ahmad has been reporting on Yemen for a decade. In that time, she has traveled to Al Qaeda-controlled territory, to the front lines of a multi-sided war in Yemen, and to cities under siege.

And yet, she says the risks of filming her latest documentary, Targeting Yemen, went beyond all of those.

“It’s the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done, I think, professionally,” Al Ahmad says. “I had to make peace with death.”

In order to investigate the escalating U.S. fight against Al Qaeda in Yemen and its impact on civilians, Al Ahmad traveled to drone strike territory to talk to survivors and witnesses.

Unlike the front lines of a conventional battle, she says, drone strikes are unpredictable, making it difficult to calculate which risks to take as a journalist.

Al Ahmad also traveled to the sites of two U.S. ground raids, including the Navy SEAL raid that made h