Saudis Trash UN Report on Child Casualties in Yemen Before Its Release

Despite overwhelming evidence, Saudi-coalition spokesman Colonel Turki Al Malki slammed the still-unreleased report as “inaccurate” and asserted that the report’s conclusions are based upon “unreliable facts.”

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
A child who was injured in Saudi Arabia's ongoing assault on Yemen is brought to a hospital by her father, in Taiz, Yemen, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015. The U.N. says at least 2,577 civilians were killed since the Saudi-led air campaign began in March, while 5,078 have been injured. (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA -- In the lead-up to the release of a UN report focusing on mass child casualties in the Yemen conflict, the Saudi-led coalition that has largely been blamed for those deaths is already contesting the results of the report, some of which were leaked to the press late last month. According to media reports, the UN was able

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Russia: Syria Has ‘Material Evidence’ That Rebels Used Chemical Weapons

Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russian state TV, “We cannot but call the nature of conclusions drawn by U.N. experts… as politicized, biased and unilateral.”

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By Global Post News Desk
In this citizen journalism image provided by the Media Office Of Douma City, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian man mourns over a dead body after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces, according to activists, in Douma town, Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Media Office Of Douma City)

Syria's government has provided "material evidence" that rebels have used chemical weapons in their battle to overthrow it, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday. Speaking after a meeting with Syrian officials in Damascus Tuesday night, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov slammed the United Nations report that detailed the use of

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UN Report: ‘Convincing Evidence’ Of Syria Chemical Attack

The findings represent the first official confirmation that chemical weapons were used in Syria’s civil war, but left the key question of who launched the attack unanswered.

UNITED NATIONS — U.N. inspectors said Monday there is "clear and convincing evidence" that chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale in an attack last month in Syria that killed hundreds of people. The findings represent the first official confirmation by scientific experts that chemical weapons were used in Syria's civil war, but

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