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A man walks by a U.S. drone graffiti painted on a wall during a campaign against drones in Yemen on May 31, 2018 in Sana’a, Yemen. (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images) Less than a week out from a monumentally consequential general election, the U.K.-based watchdog group Airwars on Wednesday released a report detailing how U.S. counterterrorism “operations in Yemen—already on the rise during the last two years of the Obama administration—significantly escalated” under President Donald Trump.
Researched and written by Mohammed al-Jumaily and Edward Ray, the report—entitled Eroding Transparency (pdf)—and an accompanying public database tally at least 230 declared or alleged U.S. military and CIA actions in Yemen since Trump took office, most which took place in 2017, the first year of his administration. Among all U.S. actions in the country during Trump’s presidency, 41 elicited allegations of civilian harm. Overall, the report says, “25 reported U.S. actions were assessed by Airwars to have likely resulted in civilian harm, reportedly leading to the deaths of between 86 and 154 civilians, including at least 28 children and 13 women.” In a series of tweets about the report, Airwars noted that Yemenis claim U.S. airstrikes and ground raids over the past four […]
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