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YemenExtra SH.A. By: Patrick Cockburn One reason Saudi Arabia and its allies are able to avoid a public outcry over their intervention in the war in Yemen, is that the number of people killed in the fighting has been vastly…

YemenExtra SH.A. By: Zahid Hussain When Imran Khan returned home last week with a handout of $6 billion from Saudi Arabia, he boasted that he would mediate (between the latter country and Iran) to end the war in Yemen. A tall claim…

YemenExtra SH.A. By: Dr. Alon Ben-Meir  The cold-blooded killing of Jamal Khashoggi, however gruesome, pales in comparison to the brutality and gross human rights violations that Saudi Arabia is committing in Yemen. The Saudis are…

YemenExtra SH.A. By Gwynne Dyer While the west has a collective meltdown over the Khashoggi murder, it has long failed to question a far bigger crime!! While Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) frantically tries to…

YemenExtra SH.A. BY: NATACHA YAZBECK The murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has triggered a diplomatic and public relations crisis for Saudi Arabia, but little may change for the victims of the Yemen war. On Wednesday,…

YemenExtra Written by: Mona Zaid  Yemen is in the midst of a humanitarian catastrophe, yet after three years of intense fighting, it has been dubbed "the forgotten war. On 25 March 2015, an international coalition led by Saudi Arabia…

YemenExtra SH.A. By: Owen Jones There is, finally, some scrutiny of Britain’s sordid relationship with one of the most abhorrent dictatorships on Earth. That it has taken the murder of a journalist – rather than, say, Saudi…

YemenExtra By: Mateen Haider * PM says Pakistan's principled position on Yemen conflict will not change after receiving Saudi assistance Pakistan Wednesday brushed aside reports that after receiving $6 billion Saudi assistance,…

YemenExtra SH.A. BY: Juan Ricardo Cole Yemen is a country of some 29 million persons, but over a third of them are at risk of starvation if Saudi and UAE bombing campaigns continue. Lise Grand, the United Nations coordinator for…

YemenExtra By Javad Heirannia Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who also teaches international business at the George Washington University, believes that “More and more people are witnessing the horror show inside…