US Complicity in Saudi Arabia’s Genocide in Yemen Spans Obama and Trump

“As a genocide scholar, I believe that under international law, the U.S. shares responsibility with the coalition for genocide in Yemen.”

Jeff Bachman
By Jeff Bachman
Yemen Famine

A Saudi-led coalition of states has been aggressively bombing Yemen and imposing an air and naval blockade of its ports for more than three years, leading U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to describe Yemen as “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” Guterres put the crisis in stark perspective, emphasizing the near complete lack of

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Civilian Death Toll Keeps Mounting as Saudi Coalition Targets Cars Travelling Yemen’s Roads

Saudi and UAE bombardment has destroyed at least 421,911 houses, 930 mosques, 888 schools, 327 hospitals and health facilities, and 38 media organizations, while also halting the operation of 4,500 schools and leaving more than 4 million people internally displaced.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem
Yemen Saudi Coalition

YEMEN -- At least seven Yemeni civilians were killed on Sunday when Saudi-led coalition aircraft targeted residential areas in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah, Sada’a, and the western coastal province of Hodeida. In Hajjah, Saudi airstrikes targeted a car as it was traveling on a road in the Bani Hassan area of the Abs district on

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Saudi Coalition Targets Buses of Fleeing Civilians in Hodeida, Killing 19

There are no humanitarian corridors in Hodeida to allow civilians to flee or ambulance crews to transport the wounded to hospitals outside of the province.  To make matter worse, a seemingly endless barrage of coalition airstrikes presents a constant danger to those seeking to flee the fighting.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem
Saudi attack on bus Hodeida Yemen

HODEIDA, YEMEN -- In a familiar atmosphere of fatalities that have come to mark the passing of a day in Hodeida, at least 49 people were killed or injured on Saturday when two Saudi Coalition airstrikes targeted two buses carrying civilians fleeing the fighting on a highway in Jabal Ras district in Hodeida. Yemen’s Ministry of Public Health and

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Civilians Flee As Saudi Coalition Targets Residential Districts in Yemen’s Hodeida

Saudi-led coalition warplanes and battleships targeted several densely populated neighborhoods in Hodeida, including Southern Hodeida and areas adjacent to the airport, killing civilians and displacing others.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem
A tanker burns after Saudi airstrikes targeted workers who were transporting tires and oil from a shop in central Hodeida on Wednesday, June 20, 2018. Photo | Ahmed Abdulkareem

HODEIDA, YEMEN -- Lying in torn, blood-stained clothing on a bed in Hodeida Hospital’s emergency room, 25-year-old Mabkhout, who refused to provide his last name for fear of retaliation, recounted the events which led him there: I got up early this morning for this chance to work, we were transporting tires and oil from a shop to a tanker and

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As Humanitarian Crisis Deepens, US Refuses to Say There Are Civilians in Gaza 

Faced with the unimaginable choices of being shot by snipers, crushed by rubble from an air strike, or dying slowly as the Strip becomes more uninhabitable with each passing day, Gazans have made it clear that they will resist until the very end.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Relatives of a Palestinian Iman who was shot and killed Friday by Israeli troops during the ongoing protest along the Gaza Strip border with Israel, carry his body to the family house during his funeral in Gaza City, April 14, 2018. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

GAZA – Though Gaza has long been the target of Israeli hostility – which has ranged from a decades-long illegal blockade of the area to several wars of aggression – this year has arguably been unlike any other for Palestinians who call the Gaza Strip their home, as airstrikes pound the area and its infrastructure still struggles to function. Those

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US-Coalition Airstrikes Killed 472 Civilians In Syria Last Month

At least 137 children are among the dead.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Thick smoke and flames erupt from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has issued a report today covering the civilian death toll of US-led coalition airstrikes in Syria over the past month, from May 23 to June 23, reporting at least 472 civilians, the largest in any 30-day period since the US started bombing Syria in 2014. The attacks covered two provinces in Syria, with 222

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