In Yemen, Human Rights Watch is accusing the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition forces of committing war crimes after the forces dropped cluster bombs on residential neighborhoods of the capital Sana’a Wednesday. The United States has reportedly sold internationally banned cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, which are now being used in Yemen, as part of the series of billion-dollar arms deals between the United States and the Saudis in 2015. Meanwhile, Iran is accusing Saudi Arabia of attacking the Iranian Embassy in Yemen amid escalating tensions between the two countries following Saudi Arabia’s execution of Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. The cleric was executed Saturday along with 46 others in Saudi Arabia’s largest mass execution in decades.
Yemen: U.S.-Backed Coalition Accused of War Crimes over Use of Cluster Bombs
HeadlineJan 07, 2016