Congress must weigh in on Yemen
by By Daniel Depetris, Los Angeles Times
Oct 09, 2017
3 minutes
The ongoing civil war in Yemen was instigated by the region's major powers, with Iran on one side and a Saudi Arabia-led coalition of Persian Gulf states on the other. The fighting - especially airstrikes by Saudi and United Arab Emirates pilots - has devastated Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest nations. It has created what three U.N. agencies call "the world's largest humanitarian crisis": Sixty percent of the Yemeni population is "food insecure";
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