For more than four years, Yemen’s army and allied popular forces — led by the Houthi Ansarullah movement — have been defending the country against a devastating Saudi-led military campaign meant to reinstate a former Riyadh-friendly government. The war has so far claimed over 91,000 lives and taken a heavy …
Read More »Video: Fires engulf Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities after drone attacks.
Yemeni drones have hit two oil facilities of Saudi Arabia’s state oil giant Aramco in the country’s east, causing huge fires before dawn on Saturday. A spokesman for Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry said in a statement that the attacks targeted two Aramco factories in Abqaiq and Khurais. The statement did …
Read More »US, France, Britain may be complicit in Yemen war crimes, U.N. report says.
The United States, Britain, and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to a Saudi-led coalition that starves civilians as a war tactic, the United Nations said on Tuesday. U.N. investigators recommended that all states impose a ban on arms …
Read More »Saudi-led coalition strike on a prison in Yemen kills at least 100 people – Red Cross.
A Red Cross official has estimated that Saudi airstrikes killed at least 100 people at a Yemeni prison. Medics have been dispatched to the scene of what looks like the deadliest strike in Yemen this year. Airstrikes pounded the detention center located in a college building in the southwest of …
Read More »Saudi coalition has used ‘Double-tap’ airstrikes in Yemen, a new report finds.
Saudi Arabia and its allies have used “double-tap” airstrikes in Yemen, researchers at investigative journalism site Bellingcat have revealed. The tactic sees missiles fired once, then again when aid workers have rushed to the injured. It dramatically raises civilian death tolls and endangers rescuers. Evidence has now been found to …
Read More »Weapons worth billions have been licensed by the UK to Saudi Arabia during Yemen war.
World’s worst humanitarian crisis ‘wouldn’t have been possible without the complicity and support of Downing Street’, campaigners say. The UK has licensed the sale of £6.2bn worth of arms to the Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen, new statistics show. Fighter jets, bombs, and missiles made in Britain are believed to have …
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