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Undated: Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_%282015%E2%80%93present%29
-- 2016 --
October 15: Saudi-led coalition admits to bombing Yemen funeral
‘Incorrect information’ meant hall in Sana’a was mistaken for military target, leading to 140 deaths, says US-backed mission
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/15/saudi-led-coalition-admits-to-bombing-yemen-funeral
November 3: Yemen’s 18-month civil war has killed about 10,000 people, and now it is pushing the country to the brink of famine. More than 21 million Yemenis — 80% of the population — are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, according to the U.N.
Drowned by the noise of the U.S. presidential election and overshadowed by the conflict in Syria and Iraq, war and hunger have quietly ravaged Yemen. Like those of drowned Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi, face down in the surf, or Aleppo boy Omran Daqneesh in the back of an ambulance, the images of emaciated 18-year-old Yemeni woman Saida Ahmad Baghili beg a neglected question: How did we get here?
http://time.com/4552712/yemen-war-humanitarian-crisis-famine/
-- 2017 --
April 14: What's Really at Stake for America in Yemen's Conflict
As the Trump administration navigates the risks of escalation, there’s a real danger it will get the calculus wrong.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/04/yemen-trump-aqap/522957/
May 22: The Big Problem with President Trump's Record Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia
When President Donald Trump closed a nearly $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia on Saturday [initiated by President Barack Obama], his deputies’ spirits soared. Policy advisor Jared Kushner high-fived National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster as he entered the room where they held talks with Saudi officials. Aide Gary Cohn told pool reporters the deals represented “a lot of money. Big dollars. Big dollars.”
The weapons sale was one of the largest in history, totaling close to $110 billion worth of tanks, artillery, radar systems, armored personnel carriers, and Blackhawk helicopters. The package also included ships, patrol boats, Patriot missiles, and THAAD missile defense systems.
Much of that military hardware will likely be pressed into service in the Saudi fight against its neighbor Yemen, where more than 10,000 people have been killed over more than two years of heavy airstrikes and fighting.
http://time.com/4787797/donald-trump-yemen-saudi-arabia-arms-deal/
June 29: Trump foreign policy: American military increasingly involved in Yemen civil war
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/29/trump-foreign-policy-american-military-increasingly-involved-in-yemen-civil-war.html
September 21: Trump Could Be Guilty of War Crimes After an American Bomb Killed Yemeni Children
http://www.newsweek.com/us-made-bomb-killed-children-yemen-so-trump-might-be-complicit-war-crimes-669240
September 25: 'Trump’s secret Yemen war': UK role in US counter-terrorism causes unease
As new figures point to doubling of covert US airstrikes in Yemen, MPs and human rights groups voice concerns over British involvement
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/sep/25/trump-secret-yemen-war-uk-role-us-counter-terrorism-causes-unease
October 25: The US military conducted two airstrikes targeting ISIS in Yemen on Wednesday, killing nine ISIS militants, according to US Central Command, which oversees US troops in the region.
This is only the second time the US has targeted ISIS in Yemen with a series of strikes, suggesting US planners are increasingly concerned about the terror group's presence there.
In the last 10 days, US forces have successfully targeted and removed 60 ISIS terrorists from the battlefield in Yemen.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/25/politics/us-airstrikes-isis-militants-yemen/index.html
November 14: America is fueling the war in Yemen. Congress is finally pushing back.
It’s a rare congressional rebuke of President Donald Trump.
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/11/14/16648848/yemen-congress-trump-saudi-salman
December 12: ... the US' recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital may lead to new conflicts, which would eventually affect the war-torn Mideast country.
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201712121059935773-yemen-saleh-trump/
December 21: Trump is 'fired up' about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen
https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/20/politics/trump-yemen-humanitarian-crisis/index.html
-- 2018 --
January 22: How the U.S. Is Making the War in Yemen Worse
The conflict has killed at least ten thousand civilians, and the country faces famine. Why are we still involved?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/22/how-the-us-is-making-the-war-in-yemen-worse
March 9: GOP Senator Long Critical Of Yemen War Now Helping Trump Block Debate On It
Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) crafted an alternative bill they call pragmatic. Peace groups believe it threatens confrontation with Iran.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-senator-once-critical-of-yemen-war-helps-trump-push-against-senate-debating-it_us_5aa1f48ce4b07047bec4cf97
March 12: The Lesson the Trump Administration has Failed to Learn about Yemen
Both the Trump and Obama administrations have advanced two fictions over the last three years to obscure U.S. complicity in Yemen’s humanitarian catastrophe. From former Secretary of State John Kerry to his successor, Rex Tillerson, U.S. officials have insisted “this is not our war” and emphasize that a political settlement is the only way to end it. However, U.S. actions – consisting of continuous, unchecked U.S. political and military support for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which are leading bombing missions that indiscriminately target Yemeni civilians already struggling under Houthi rebel rule – hardly support this position.
https://www.justsecurity.org/53635/lesson-trump-administration-failed-learn-yemen/
March 14: Under Trump, U.S. Still Leads World’s Arms Exporters — and Yemenis Are Still Paying the Price
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/14/us-arms-sales-saudi-arabia-yemen/
March 19: Trump to push Saudi Arabia's crown prince on solution to civil war in Yemen
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/19/trump-push-saudi-arabias-crown-prince-solution-civil-war-yemen/438918002/
March 21: Senate Votes Down Ending Trump's Support for Saudi-led War in Yemen
The Senate votes 55-44 to dismiss the resolution, which sought for the first time to take advantage of a provision in the 1973 War Powers Act
The vote was largely along party lines, although a handful of Democrats voted with the majority Republicans to kill the measure, and a handful of Republicans supported the failed effort to let it move ahead.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/senate-votes-down-ending-trump-s-support-for-saudi-led-war-in-yemen-1.5931874
March 21: Trump, Saudi leader discuss Houthi 'threat' in Yemen
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-whitehouse/trump-saudi-leader-discuss-houthi-threat-in-yemen-white-house-idUSKBN1GX1PP
March 21: The War in Yemen: No End in Sight
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-war-in-yemen-no-end-in-sight
April 12: Now in its fourth year, the war in Yemen shows no signs of abating and may be escalating. In recent weeks, the northern Yemeni armed militia and political movement known as the Houthis1 (Ansar Allah in Arabic) have launched several missile attacks into Saudi Arabia, while the Saudi-led coalition, a multinational grouping of armed forces primarily led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has continued to conduct air strikes inside Yemen. According to the Yemen Data Project, the coalition has conducted over 16,000 air strikes in Yemen since 2015.
Although both the Obama and Trump Administrations have called for a political solution to the conflict, the wars’ combatants still appear determined to pursue military victory. They also would appear to fundamentally disagree over the framework for a political solution. The Saudi-led coalition demands that the Houthi militia disarm, relinquish its heavy weaponry (ballistic missiles and rockets), and return control of the capital Sana’a to the internationally-recognized govern-ment of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who is in exile in Saudi Arabia. The coalition cites international consensus for these demands, insisting that the conditions laid out in United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2216 (April 2015) should form the basis for a solution to the conflict.5 The Houthis reject UNSCR 2216 and seem determined to outlast their opponents while consolidating their control over northern Yemen. Since the December 2017 Houthi killing of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, a former Houthi ally, it would appear that there is no single Yemeni rival to challenge Houthi rule in northern Yemen.
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/R43960.pdf
April 17: Senators Demand Answers From Trump Team on Yemen
Administration officials defended their position, but lawmakers weren’t happy with their answers.
Senators on Tuesday accused the Trump administration of handing a blank check to Saudi Arabia in its 3-year-old war in Yemen despite a stalemate on the battlefield and a spiraling humanitarian crisis.
Grilling top officials from the State Department, Defense Department, and U.S. Agency for International Development at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle expressed frustration that the administration could not articulate a clear strategy, use its influence with Riyadh to safeguard civilians, or promote a diplomatic settlement.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/17/senators-demand-answers-from-trump-team-on-yemen-middle-east-congress-world-worst-humanitarian-crisis-famine-saudi-arabia-state-department-pentagon/
May 3: US special forces secretly deployed to assist Saudi Arabia in Yemen conflict
The Pentagon said before that the US role in the conflict was limited to 'refuelling and logistics'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-special-forces-saudi-arabia-yemen-war-green-berets-houthi-rebels-mohammed-bin-salman-a8335481.html
June 4: The Trump administration is considering getting more involved in Yemen — and aid groups say it could be disastrous
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-considers-helping-uae-seize-yemeni-port-could-be-disastrous-2018-6
December 11: Yemen's Warring Sides Shake Hands On Deal To Swap Thousands Of Prisoners
There were scenes of raised hands and smiles from Yemen's warring sides as they met Tuesday in a Swedish castle for U.N.-brokered peace talks. The two sides announced they will exchange thousands of prisoners in late January — a move that could be a small step toward relieving the suffering of millions of Yemenis caught in civil war.
The swap will reportedly involve some 15,000 prisoners. According to Reuters, envoys said it "would be conducted via Houthi-held Sanaa airport in north Yemen and government-held Sayun airport in the south — a process overseen by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross."
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/11/675588183/yemens-warring-sides-shake-hands-on-deal-to-swap-thousands-of-prisoners
December 13: Elliott Broidy, Former Top Trump Fundraiser, Hit With Another Setback in Qatar Lawsuit
Elliott Broidy's case against veteran UN diplomat tossed
Broidy claims he was targeted by Qatar and its agents over his efforts to shift U.S. policy against Gulf nation
A former top fundraiser for U.S. President Donald Trump suffered another legal setback on Friday in his efforts to pin the blame on Qatar for a hack of his emails, as a judge tossed his lawsuit against a veteran United Nations diplomat.
Elliott Broidy, a businessman who held senior finance posts in Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and his inaugural committee, sued Jamal Benomar in July, claiming he orchestrated the dissemination of hacked emails to media outlets.
Benomar, a British citizen born in Morocco and a former U.N. special envoy for Yemen, had denied involvement and sought to get the lawsuit thrown out by asserting diplomatic immunity, a status confirmed by the Trump administration last month.
Siding with Benomar, Manhattan federal District Judge Cathy Seibel on Friday dismissed the case, court records show.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/elliott-broidy-former-top-trump-fundraiser-hit-with-another-setback-in-qatar-lawsu-1.6767499
-- 2019 --
January 30: U.S. lawmakers said on Wednesday they expect Congress will pass a resolution ending U.S. involvement in the Yemen war, which would force President Donald Trump to issue the first veto of his presidency in order to continue supporting the Saudi-led coalition.
Republican and Democratic senators and representatives said on Wednesday they were re-introducing a war powers resolution that passed the Senate by 56-41 in December, a rebuke of Trump amid anger at Saudi Arabia not just over civilian deaths in Yemen, but also the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate in Turkey.
The lawmakers - an alliance of progressive Democrats and Republican constitutional conservatives - deplored the “humanitarian disaster” in Yemen but also said they wanted Congress to reassert its constitutional authority to decide whether the United States should be involved in military conflict.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-yemen/us-lawmakers-seek-to-force-trump-decision-on-saudi-yemen-war-idUSKCN1PO2RO
January 31: Inspired by Jamal Khashoggi's killing, lawmakers renew fight to defy Trump and end US support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-effort-to-limit-trumps-war-powers-in-yemen-inspired-by-khashoggi-2019-1
-- 2020 --
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