As World s Worst Humanitarian Crisis Rages, the Perfect Storm is Blowing Up in Yemen
On 2/26/21 at 8:03 PM EST
But another deadly threat is likely to lurk for some time IEDs.
Improvised explosive devices are killing Yemenis at alarming rates, with little international attention.
Across the war-torn country militias, militant groups, criminals and mercenaries are exploiting the shortcomings of global disarmament and peacekeeping efforts to wage a war within a war, targeting civilians and fighters alike with a weapon that has come to symbolize today s asymmetrical warfare. I d say that IEDs are still a blind spot of the international community despite the IED having been the defining weapon for over 20 years since the 9/11 attacks, Iain Overton, executive director of United Kingdom-based nonprofit Action on Armed Violence, told
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U.S. Arms Sales to Middle East Ballooned During Yemen War Aishwarya Rakesh 7450
Children attending class on the first day of school damaged by an airstrike in September 2019 (@Human Rights Watch)
Aircraft, missiles & munitions dominate U.S. arms sales to the Middle East which ballooned during 2015-20, coinciding with the war in Yemen.
Sales of military aircraft overwhelmingly dominate U.S. arms sales to Middle Eastern countries followed by missiles and munitions for the 2015-2020 periods.
U.S. military aircraft sales, comprising those by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) and direct commercial sales by arms vendors amounted to $58.223 billion during the period under study while that of missiles and munitions amounted to $25 billion.