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Top 10 Photos of the Week

Busboy Who Comforted Robert Kennedy After He Was Shot Dies A Hero’s Return for Central Valley Veterans McMaryion Is ‘McMarvelous’ in Bulldogs’ Body Slam of Toledo Melania Trump Visits School in Malawi Denzel Washington and The Boys & Girls Clubs of America The New York Yankees Ready for Playoffs President Trump...

Top 10 Photos of the Week

Busboy Who Comforted Robert Kennedy After He Was Shot Dies A Hero’s Return for Central Valley Veterans McMaryion Is ‘McMarvelous’ in Bulldogs’ Body Slam of Toledo Melania Trump Visits School in Malawi Denzel Washington and The Boys & Girls Clubs of America The New York Yankees Ready for Playoffs President Trump...

US Has the Power to End the War in Yemen

Blinded by its obsession with Iran, the Trump administration is perpetuating an unwinnable civil war in Yemen and undermining the likelihood of a political settlement, writes Mohammed Buzzi in The Atlantic. Mohammed is the former Middle East bureau chief for Newsday. "In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly (last) week,...

Republicans Join Democrats in Wanting US Out of Yemen

The push to end American support of the civil war in Yemen is gaining bipartisan traction in Congress. The legislation introduced Sept. 26 includes three Republican co-sponsors: Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Walter Jones of North Carolina, and Raul Labrador of Idaho. “Congress never authorized military action in Yemen as our...

Anyone Who Says The Quran Advocates Terrorism Hasn't Read Its Lessons on Violence

Only two groups in our society promote the “Quran teaches terrorism” myth: anti-Muslim pundits and Isis extremists. Both are wrong. This simplistic conclusion ignores that many groups in many countries are experiencing terror right now. It ignores the international arms trade from powerful western nations that wholly disregards human rights and has caused the death of more...

UAE, Saudis May Have Committed War Crimes in Yemen

GENEVA — Three experts working for the U.N.'s top human rights body say the governments of Yemen, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia may have been responsible for war crimes including rape, torture, disappearances and "deprivation of the right to life" during 3½ years of battling Yemeni rebels. In...

Yemen's Shiite Rebels Welcome UN Call for Saudi Strike Probe

SANAA, Yemen — Yemen's Shiite rebels on Friday backed a U.N. call for a probe into a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in the country's north that killed dozens of people the previous day, including many children, in an attack that drew wide international criticism. Senior Yemeni rebel leader Mohammed Ali al-Houthi...

Saudi Coalition Airstrike in Yemen Kills at Least 29 Children

SANAA, Yemen — An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels hit a bus driving in a busy market in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing least 50 people including children and wounding 77, Yemen's rebel-run Al Masirah TV said citing rebel Health Ministry figures. The Saudi-led coalition, meanwhile, said...

US Allies Kill 22 Yemeni Civilians at Wedding. Village Asks, 'Why Us?'

Yemeni civilians are calling for the denouncement of the U.S. role in their country's civil war after airstrikes killed 22 at a wedding and thousands of others. The deaths are continuing unabated, with as many as hundreds of casualties per month, despite assurances by a U.S.-backed regional coalition that it...

Point-Counterpoint: Iran's Participation in Syrian War

Point: Iran's Real Enemy in Syria “What kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women, and children?” President Trump asked Russia and Iran after launching air strikes against the Syrian regime. “The nations of the world can be judged by the friends...

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