Yemen
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Avoiding the Next Yemen: Applying Hard Lessons for Security Partnerships
The humanitarian crisis in Yemen, wrought by a conflict entering its fourth year, has called into question the nature and purpose of American security partnership with Saudi Arabia.…
CENTCOM Improves Transparency of Yemen War Civilian Casualties, But Gaps Remain
On January 7, United States Central Command (CENTCOM) published a press release titled “CENTCOM counterterrorism strikes in Yemen 2018 rollup,” providing data on the various…
Saudi Coalition “Admission” of Error in Bombing Cholera Treatment Center Implicates the United States
Saudi coalition's "admission" of error is a humanitarian law violation, and that has direct implications for US support for the Saudi Yemen War.
National Security at the United Nations This Week
Editors’ Note: This is part of a new weekly series from Just Security that keeps readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,…
National Security at the United Nations This Week
Editors’ Note: Just Security is now producing a new weekly series that keeps readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,…
Annotation of the Pentagon Report to Congress on Detainee Abuse by U.S. Partners in Yemen
In a mere two pages of carefully parsed prose, DoD has provided what can only be described as a deliberately misleading and deceptively evasive account of U.S. and Emirati actions…
A False Choice on Saudi Arabia: Sanctioning Riyadh’s Military-Intelligence Sectors is a Workable Option
The real question now is how to make clear to the Saudis and especially MBS that Washington won’t accept Riyadh’s brutal murder of a journalist or Yemen war, all without losing…
The Senate Strikes Back: Checking Trump’s Foreign Policy
Though the Senate vote on cessation of military assistance for the Saudi War in Yemen will have no practical effect – the House of Representatives will not take up the matter…
Full Accounting Needed of US-UAE Counterterrorism Partnership in Yemen
Congress needs to scrutinize the specific legal and moral compromises we have made by going all in with the UAE in exchange for progress against terrorist groups in Yemen.
How the “Arms Sales Oversight Act” Could Prevent American Arms from Contributing to the Next Overseas Crisis
The debate over U.S. complicity in Yemen’s humanitarian catastrophe is coming to a head in the Senate, with a series of votes on the Sanders-Lee-Murphy war powers resolution.…
How the Senate Should Move Forward on Resolution to Withdraw from Yemen War
The Senate Resolution on Saudi Arabia and US support for the Yemen war is a most welcome development, but it has flaws that need fixing to avoid unintended consequences -- and…
No Clean Hands: Reaction and Counter-Reaction in the Iranian-Saudi Proxy War in Yemen
"President Trump’s statement on Tuesday makes finding a political compromise that much more difficult. By painting the war in Yemen as black and white – innocents and offenders…