Yemen Civil War

May 24 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump used emergency authority to approve nearly two dozen arms sales to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and other countries, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Congress on Friday. Congressional aides told The Washington …

A man inspects a house a day after it was hit by airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition that left six people killed and more than 40 others injured on May 17, 2019 in Sana’a, Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images) A U.S. Air Force veteran has regis…

The Trump administration has invoked an emergency provision of the law governing arms sale to immediately sell Saudi Arabia and other Gulf allies weapons without congressional approval, two Democratic senators said Friday. The approval comes amid heightened …

Eingebetteter Medieninhalt Eingebetteter Medieninhalt May 23, 2019: Radhya Al-Mutawakel on the Yemen War European banks are financing arms producers CNN: Systematic abuse of aid in Yemen Yemen as international battleground Growing tensons in the Middle East…

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Via Middle East Eye, France has threatened three French journalists with potential jail time for using secret documents to reveal the country's involvement in the Yemen civil war.  In a series of reports published in April, investigative journalists from Di…

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In protest against proxy powers behind the conflict in Yemen, Italian union workers refused to load electricity generators onto a Saudi Arabian ship carrying weapons on Monday. The 'Bahri-Yanbu' was blocked from collecting arms in the French port of Le Havre…

France has threatened three French journalists with potential jail time for using secret documents to reveal the country's involvement in the Yemen civil war.  In a series of reports published in April, investigative journalists from Disclose and Radio Franc…