15 h. ago Militarily cosying up to Trump in Yemen cannot end well for the UK | Paul Rogers

US foreign policy is turning it into a global pariah – yet Labour’s strike on the Houthis represents a new level of supportPaul Rogers is emeritus professor of peace studies at Bradford UniversityThis week’s RAF attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen was the first to be approved by the Labour government. It joined a major US military operation that started in March and has involved 45 days of airstrikes. Operation Rough Rider is a demonstration by the Trump administration that it will prosecute a vigorous war that is more intense than under Joe Biden, and has, according to the US, already seen more than 1,000 targets hit.The RAF operation reportedly targeted a plant manufacturing armed drones used in Houthi attacks on shipping transiting the Red Sea, and demonstrated that Keir Starmer has decided to be Donald Trump’s closest military ally.Paul Rogers is emeritus professor of peace studies at Bradford University Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump promised peace but brings rapid increase in civilian casualties to Yemen | Dan Sabbagh

Escalation from US military suggests previous restraints on causing civilian casualties have been relaxed“I am the candidate of peace,” Donald Trump declared on the campaign trail last November. Three months into his presidency, not only is the war in Ukraine continuing and the war in Gaza restarted, but in Yemen, the number of civilian casualties caused by US bombing is rapidly and deliberately escalating.Sixty-eight were killed overnight, the Houthis said, when the US military bombed a detention centre holding African migrants in Saada, north-west Yemen, as part of a campaign against the rebel group. In the words of the US Central Command (Centcom), its purpose is to “restore freedom of navigation” in the Red Sea and, most significantly, “American deterrence”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago US strikes kill 8 in Yemen's capital, Houthi rebels say, as America says over 800 strikes conducted

U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s capital killed at least eight people overnight

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9 d. ago 'I'm going to jail for this' Instructor's words after paddleboard trip ended in tragedy

Nerys Lloyd (third from left in white shirt and sunglasses) admits the gross negligence manslaughter of Paul O’Dwyer, 42, Andrea Powell, 41, Morgan Rogers, 24, and Nicola Wheatley, 40, who died while out paddleboarding after heavy rain and flooding in Pembrokeshire

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1 week ago Trump says Hegseth is ‘doing a great job’ despite reports of second Signal chat

US president dismisses criticism of defense secretary sharing information on strikes in Yemen to his familyUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump offered public support for defense secretary Pete Hegseth a day after it emerged that Hegseth had shared information about US strikes in Yemen last month in a second Signal group chat that included family, his personal lawyer and several top Pentagon aides.“He’s doing a great job. Ask the Houthis how he’s doing,” Trump said dismissively, referring to the rebel group in Yemen targeted by those missile strikes, on the sidelines of the White House Easter egg roll event on Monday. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Donald Trump told to fire bumbling defence secretary Pete Hegseth over attack plans

Pete Hegseth created a Signal messaging chat that included his relatives, where he shared details of a March military airstrike against Yemen's Houthi militants sent in another chain with Trump administration leader

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1 week ago Trump news at a glance: Hegseth reportedly had Yemen Signal chat with wife, brother

Defence secretary reportedly sent the group flight schedules for strikes on Houthis; draft order calls for drastic restructure of state department – key US politics stories from 20 AprilDefence secretary Pete Hegseth is in the spotlight for a communications blunder in which he reportedly created his own Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, in which he shared confidential details of a US strike on Yemen this March.The chat on Signal, a commercially available app not authorized as a means to communicate sensitive or classified national defense information, allegedly included more than a dozen people. Continue reading...

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1 week ago US airstrike in Yemen kills over 70 people and wounds scores more as Trump continues campaign against Houthi rebels

Marking a major escalation in the military campaign launched by President Donald Trump last month, the attack on the Ras Isa port is the deadliest known attack so far.

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3 w. ago Trump was ‘the candidate of peace’. Now he’s fanning the flames of war | Mohamad Bazzi

The US is bombing Houthi rebels and supporting Netanyahu’s campaigns as it sleepwalks into new conflictsThroughout the last presidential campaign, Donald Trump portrayed himself as the candidate who would bring peace to an unstable world. He promised to use his deal-making experience to negotiate an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s war on Gaza, among other global conflicts.“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace,” Trump told a rally in Michigan on 1 November, as he urged Arab and Muslim American voters to choose him over the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Yemen's Houthi rebels say US airstrikes kill 2 as Trump's bombing video suggests higher death toll

Suspected U.S. airstrikes have killed at least two people overnight in a stronghold of Yemen’s Houthi rebels

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3 w. ago Donald Trump posts brutal video of air strike that could actually be evidence of WAR CRIMES

US President Donald Trump said he would target Houthis in Yemen until the group stopped targeting commercial vessels in the red Sea using the Suez Canal in Egypt

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3 w. ago Former Trump official explains the reason he believes the administration is using Signal

The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was mistakenly added to a Signal group chat with administration officials discussing attack plans last month

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4 w. ago Trump’s Yemen bombing campaign could cost $1bn by next week, with little to show for it

Trump’s war in Yemen has come under greater scrutiny after his national security officials leaked details of the initial strikes in a group chat with a journalist

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last month Yemen’s Houthi rebels release video claiming to show moment fighters shoot down US drone

Yemen's Houthi rebels have released footage they claim shows soldiers shooting down a US drone flying over the country.

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