Cows and coal-black water buffaloes are tethered to wooden stakes outside mud-walled houses.

The leader, who was chosen by compromise among most of the rival factions, spent the night in a mud-walled house.

On one side of the fort lies a village of mud-walled houses.

They offer me shelter for the night in their two-story mud-walled house.

Their former home is a humble mud-walled house, surrounded by small fields of wheat and clover.

Stretching for 40 miles through flat, desert land, the main canal passes low, thick mud-walled houses set among orchards and small vegetable plots.

Sana's old city still has the narrow, mud-walled houses that characterized the Arab world centuries ago.

The drains, a farmer said, are too shallow, and when it rains waste water floods the mud-walled houses.

Her home is a mud-walled communal house built more than a century ago during the Qing Dynasty.

Riab Abdul Hussein, 47, came out of his mud-walled house smiling broadly.