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    U.N. Experts: Some Saudi-Led Airstrikes In Yemen Could Be War Crimes

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    by Scott Neuman Aug 28, 2018 2 minutes
    Yemeni children gather outside their classroom in Dec. 2016, at a school that was recently damaged in a Saudi-led air strike in the country's third-city of Taez.

    U.N. human rights experts say that the Saudi-led, Western-backed coalition fighting in Yemen may have committed war crimes by conducting indiscriminate airstrikes on civilians.

    In a report for the United Nations Human Rights Council, the experts also detailed incidents of rape, torture, disappearances and recruitment of child soldiers, carried out by both the coalition – which also includes the United Arab Emirates

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