Politics of Yemen

A little girl wearing a red dress stands next to a dog near a destroyed building.

US Senate hands Trump historic double rebuke on Saudi Arabia and Yemen

December 13, 2018Global Politics

In a historic move, Senators voted 56-41 to end US military support for the Saudi Arabian-led campaign in Yemen. It was the first time either chamber of Congress had backed a resolution to withdraw US forces from a foreign military engagement under the War Powers Act.

A supporter of Yemen's then President Ali Abdullah Saleh waves a poster featuring him during a rally to show support for him in Sanaa

Yemen’s former president assassinated after his last ‘dance on the heads of snakes’

December 4, 2017Conflict

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