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Yemen: 11 people dead, at least 19 injured after an airstrike hits Abs hospital
Abs hospital in Hajjah governorate,northwestern Yemen, was hit by an airstrike today at 15.45 local time, killing at least 11 people and injuring at least 19. The blast immediately killed nine people, including a Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, and two more patients died while being transferred to Al Jamhouri hospital. Five patients remain hospitalised. Abs hospital, supported by MSF since July 2015, has been partially destroyed, and all the remaining patients and staff have been evacuated.
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Saudi jets bomb protesters in Yemen rallying for rebel-led government
At least three people have been killed in chaotic scenes in Yemen after bombs rained down on a city square where thousands of protesters had gathered in support of the country’s ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Fighter jets with the Saudi-led coalition bombed the country’s capital city of Sanaa yesterday, including the area around the Presidential palace, Associated Press reports. Local officials reported at least three civilians were killed during the attack.
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Yemen suicide attack clamed by IS 'kills dozens' in Aden
So-called Islamic State says it carried out a suicide car bombing on a military facility in the Yemeni city of Aden, which doctors say killed at least 60.
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Yemen on brink of famine as civil war rages
The UN Security Council is calling on all parties in Yemen's civil war to halt all military activity and abide by the terms of a cessation of hostilities agreed upon in April.
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32 killed in latest Saudi attack in Yemen
At least 32 civilians have been killed and scores more injured in a Saudi airstrike on Yemen's western Hudaydah province. The strikes were carried out against a busy marketplace in the province's Hawak district late on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Saudi warplanes targeted residential areas in the northwestern province of Sa'ada. Meanwhile, Yemeni forces have carried out a retaliatory missile attack on a Saudi military base in the kingdom’s southern Najran region.
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We saw how Yemen’s children are slowly starving to death
Filming in Yemen, we realised the scale of severe malnutrition among the country’s children – by far the greatest cause of casualties in this war.
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US Navy destroyer comes under missile attack off Yemen coast
A missile fired from the Yemeni shore targeted a US Navy guided missile destroyer, a Pentagon spokesman has said. Two rockets, which failed to hit the ship, allegedly came from territory controlled by Houthi rebels.
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U.S. Navy destroyer again targeted by missiles from Yemen: U.S. officials
A U.S. Navy destroyer was targeted on Wednesday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, the second such incident in four days, the U.S. military said. The USS Mason fired defensive salvos in response to at least one missile which did not hit the ship or caused any damage as it operated north of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the Pentagon said. Indications are that the second salvo brought down an incoming missile, one U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Three US strikes hit radar sites in Yemen, Pentagon says
Three US strikes hit radar sites in Yemen on Wednesday night, the Pentagon said, after the USS Mason was targeted by missiles this week in the Red Sea.
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U.S. military strikes Yemen after missile attacks on U.S. Navy ship
The U.S. military launched cruise missile strikes on three coastal radar sites in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, retaliating after failed missile attacks this week on a U.S. Navy destroyer, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The strikes authorized by President Barack Obama represent Washington's first direct military action against Houthi-controlled targets in Yemen's conflict. The Pentagon said initial U.S. assessments indicated the radar sites were destroyed.
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What happens when the US government is asked the difference between Russia in Syria and Saudi Arabia in Yemen
A US government spokesperson has struggled to answer questions put to him on why the US condemns Russian bombing in Syria, and supports Saudi-led bombing in Yemen, both of which have killed thousands of civilians. During a media briefing in Washington DC on Tuesday, State Department spokesperson John Kirby was asked repeatedly about whether Saudi coalition bombing of Houthi rebels in Sanaa - facilitated by US arms sales to the Gulf state - deliberately targets civilian infrastructure.
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Funeral bombing result of 'wrong information', says Saudi-led coalition
A Saudi-led coalition blames wrong information for the bombing of a packed funeral hall in Sanaa that killed at least 140 people and wounded some 600.
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The US just bombed Yemen, and no one's talking about it
What if the United States went to war and nobody here even noticed? The question is absurd, isn’t it? And yet, this almost perfectly describes what actually happened this past week. While many Americans, myself included, were all hypnotized by the bizarre spectacle of the Republican nominee for president, a US navy destroyer fired a barrage of cruise missiles at three radar sites controlled by the rebel Houthi movement in Yemen. This attack marked the first time the US has fought the rebels directly in Yemen’s devastating civil war.
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Saudi Arabia ‘deliberately targeting impoverished Yemen’s farms and agricultural industry’
The Yemen war uniquely combines tragedy, hypocrisy and farce. First come the casualties: around 10,000, almost 4,000 of them civilians. Then come those anonymous British and American advisers who seem quite content to go on “helping” the Saudi onslaughts on funerals, markets and other obviously (to the Brits, I suppose) military targets. Then come the Saudi costs: more than $250m (£200m) a month, according to Standard Chartered Bank – and this for a country that cannot pay its debts to construction companies. But now comes the dark comedy bit: the Saudis have included in their bombing targets cows, farms and sorghum – which can be used for
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The Debate We Should Be Having About America’s Role in the Yemen War
America has played a key role in a major Middle Eastern conflict that is getting no attention during the campaign. By Jonah Shepp.
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Clinton Adviser Proposes Attacking Iran to Aid the Saudis in Yemen
Good news for anyone who wants to risk American lives for the sake of keeping Yemen in Saudi Arabia’s sphere of influence. By Eric Levitz.
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More than one million children starve as Yemen war rages: U.N. agencies
Around 1.5 million children in Yemen are malnourished and half the population lives in hunger, United Nations aid agencies said on Friday, three days after pictures of an emaciated Yemeni teenager sparked headlines around the world. Yemen's 18-month war has left 370,000 children at risk of severe malnutrition - a condition which needs urgent treatment to prevent a child from dying - the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said at a press briefing in Geneva on Friday.
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The United States May Be Guilty of War Crimes in Yemen
The Saudi air campaign is targeting schools, hospitals, markets—and US military support makes it all possible. By Michael T. Klare.
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Can Everyone Stop Saying The Houthis Are An Iranian Proxy?
Tehran’s support for the Houthis is minimal at best, and its influence in Yemen is non-existent. It is simply inaccurate to state that the Zaidi Houthis are Shia Iranian proxies. By Muhammed Ali Carter. (Oct. 23, 2016)
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Blowback from America’s Disastrous Policy in Yemen Will Be Profound
The cost to the Yemeni people and particularly to its young people is incalculable. By Michael Horton.
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