Yemen

By Mashal Hashem and James Allen | – (Tomdispatch.com) – A springtime wedding in Northern Yemen’s Al-Raqah village took place in April 2018, a moment of reprieve from the turmoil and devastation of that war-torn country, a moment to celebrate life, love, and the birth of a new family. From the tents constructed for the […]

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The New Drone Wars: Houthis hit Saudi Oil Pumping Stations, avenging Riyadh’s Strikes on Sana’a

Middle East Monitor

The security spokesperson for the Presidency of the State Security in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced that Aramco oil pumping stations in the provinces of Al Duwadimi and Afif in Riyadh were attacked. The Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources stressed that the “terrorist attack” targeted two pumping stations for a pipeline, pointing […]

Yemen

The Yemen War is one of the Most Destructive since the Cold War: UN

Middle East Monitor

A recent UN report sheds light on the devastating humanitarian and economic impact of the war in Yemen and how it sets back human development there more than 20 years, Anadolu reports. The report by the organization’s development program (UNDP) highlights the humanitarian situation there, which was one of the worst in the world even […]

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In our National Interest? 250K Yemenis now Starving to Death, with 233K already dead in Trump-Backed War

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s policy in Yemen might best be described as “malign neglect.” The US is giving strategic and logistical support, and above all political legitimacy to a brutal war being waged on little Yemen by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and their coalition allies (though that group seems to be […]

Yemen

The Ugly American: Trump Vetoes Congressional Resolution to get out of Yemen

Middle East Monitor

By Abdulaziz Kilani | – Last week, US President Donald Trump vetoed a Congressional resolution that would have ended American support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, thereby issuing his second veto since he took office in the White House. This was expected, and is a sign that, regardless of the criticism that America is […]

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Congress Slaps down Trump-Saudi War on Yemen

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The House of Representatives voted Thursday 247 to 175 to end the US involvement in supporting the Saudi-led war effort in Yemen. 16 Republicans voted with the Democratic majority. The Senate had already passed the act, invoking the War Powers act for the first time since it was enacted in […]

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After Saudi-led Air Strike on Yemen Kills 5 Schoolchildren, US Calls for Probe

AFP

Washington, DC (AFP) – The United States on Thursday urged Saudi-led forces to conduct a transparent probe after eight people including five children were killed in a strike near a hospital in Yemen. Charity Save the Children reported the death toll at the hospital it supports in Saada province, saying a missile hit a gas […]

Yemen

After School, Yemen’s Children seek Work at the Cemetery

AFP

By Abeer Ali | – Sanaa (AFP) – Barefoot in a blue striped shirt, Ahmed al-Hamadi walks from school to a cemetery in the Yemeni capital where he works to help his family survive. The 13-year-old makes his way through the cemetery, where graves are cramped together and overgrown with weeds. Hauling gallons of water […]

Bernie Sanders

In Historic Rebuke to Trump, Senate invokes War Powers to Halt US aid to Saudi War on Yemen

Juan Cole

The US Senate voted 54 to 46 to invoke the 1973 War Powers Act and to end US support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen. The Yemen War has involved extensive war crimes, in which the US is complicit. Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the Saudis launched the war in spring […]