<span style="color: #222222;">Yemen's civil war has killed at least 91,600 people since the conflict began in 2015. A database tracking violence today said, presenting a new estimate after completing reporting for the first months of fighting in 2015.<br />''  <br />'' The conflict began with the 2014 takeover over of northern and central Yemen by the Iranian-backed rebels, driving out the internationally recognized government from the capital, Sanaa. Months later, in March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition launched its air campaign to prevent the rebels, known as Houthis, from overrunning the country's south.<br />'' <br />'' The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, or ACLED, said that in 2015, about 17,100 people were reported killed – the second-most lethal year after 2018, which was the deadliest one on record.<br />'' <br />''<br />''The numbers do not include those who have died in the humanitarian disasters caused by the war, particularly starvation.</span>