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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Yemen
The New Drone Wars: Houthis hit Saudi Oil Pumping Stations, avenging Riyadh’s Strikes on Sana’a
Global oil prices rose on the report that Saudis closed the pipeline
The Yemen War is one of the Most Destructive since the Cold War: UN
If the war were to end in 2019, the UNDP projects it would account for 140,000 deaths of children under the age of 5
In our National Interest? 250K Yemenis now Starving to Death, with 233K already dead in Trump-Backed War
140,000 of the dead are children under 5
The Ugly American: Trump Vetoes Congressional Resolution to get out of Yemen
American and British bombs may have killed or injured 1,000 civilians, including women and children, in Yemen
Congress Slaps down Trump-Saudi War on Yemen
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 […]
After Saudi-led Air Strike on Yemen Kills 5 Schoolchildren, US Calls for Probe
Charity Save the Children reported the death toll at the hospital it supports in Saada province
After School, Yemen’s Children seek Work at the Cemetery
The UN estimates two million Yemeni children, out of an eligible seven million, are out of school.
In Historic Rebuke to Trump, Senate invokes War Powers to Halt US aid to Saudi War on Yemen
Thousands of children have starved and 16 million persons are food insecure in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
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