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January 7, 2016

Yemen: U.S.-Backed Coalition Accused of War Crimes over Use of Cluster Bombs
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In Yemen, Human Rights Watch is accusing the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led
coalition forces of committing war crimes after the forces dropped
cluster bombs on residential neighborhoods of the capital Sana'a
Wednesday. The United States has reportedly sold internationally banned
cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, which are now being used in Yemen, as
part of the series of billion-dollar arms deals between the United
States and the Saudis in 2015. Meanwhile, Iran is accusing Saudi Arabia
of attacking the Iranian Embassy in Yemen amid escalating tensions
between the two countries following Saudi Arabia's execution of Shiite
cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. The cleric was executed Saturday along with
46 others in Saudi Arabia's largest mass execution in decades.


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