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Trump administration increased strikes and raids in Yemen, watchdog finds
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Missy Ryan
Oct. 28, 2020 at 12:01 a.m. EDT
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The United States has conducted at least 190 armed actions, mostly airstrikes, in Yemen since President Trump took office in 2017, resulting in a minimum of 86 likely civilian deaths, a new study by a watchdog group has found.
The analysis by Airwars, a Britain-based organization which uses local news, social media and civil society reports to corroborate claims of civilian harm, provides new insight into a war that has been largely shrouded in secrecy. The U.S. attacks, which Airwars said were carried out primarily by the U.S. military and included a handful of ground raids, appeared to represent the most intensive period of American counterinsurgent activity in Yemen since 2001, the study said.
Airwars urged U.S. military authorities to investigate allegations of noncombatant deaths and disclose more information about the actions it mounts against militants in Yemen, the same way it has in the U.S.-led war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
The failure of U.S. Central Command (Centcom), which oversees military operations in the Middle East, “adequately to identify, review and where necessary acknowledge civilian harm claims from its actions in Yemen appears to be markedly at odds with current Pentagon policies, and should be addressed as a matter of urgency,” Airwars said.
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