Middle East crisis live: UK joins US strikes against Houthis in Yemen

British defence secretary says strikes in response to ‘persistent threat’ to shippingRecent US strikes on Yemen have killed more than 100 people, Reuters notes. That figure includes 74 at an oil terminal in mid-April in what was the deadliest strike in Yemen under the Donald Trump so far, according to the Houthi-run health ministry.Rights advocates have raised concerns about civilian killings. Houthi-controlled television said on Monday a US airstrike killed 68 people after striking a detention centre for African migrants in Yemen. Continue reading...

Middle East crisis live: UK joins US strikes against Houthis in Yemen

British defence secretary says strikes in response to ‘persistent threat’ to shipping

Recent US strikes on Yemen have killed more than 100 people, Reuters notes. That figure includes 74 at an oil terminal in mid-April in what was the deadliest strike in Yemen under the Donald Trump so far, according to the Houthi-run health ministry.

Rights advocates have raised concerns about civilian killings. Houthi-controlled television said on Monday a US airstrike killed 68 people after striking a detention centre for African migrants in Yemen. Continue reading...