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![Yemeni Youth Are Still Starving to Death Due to US-Backed Saudi Blockade](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/03/seg2-yemen-400x300.jpg)
Yemeni Youth Are Still Starving to Death Due to US-Backed Saudi Blockade
The World Food Programme warns that Yemen is headed toward the biggest famine in modern history.
![Biden Pledges End to U.S. Offensive Support for Saudi-Led Assault on Yemen](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/02/SEG3-Biden-Yemen-2-400x300.jpg)
Biden Pledges End to US Offensive Support for Saudi-Led Assault on Yemen
Biden described the war, supported by both the Obama and Trump admins, as a “humanitarian and strategic catastrophe."
![A child is seen in a house a day after it was hit by airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition that left six people killed and more than 40 others injured on May 17, 2019, in Sana'a, Yemen.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/01/2021_0128-yemen-400x300.jpg)
Ilhan Omar: Arms Sale Freeze Is “First Step” to End US Support for War on Yemen
The Biden administration is imposing a temporary freeze on arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
![Smoke billows following a reported airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on November 27, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/01/2021_0122-yemen-airstrike-400x300.jpg)
Yemen Crisis Linked to Weapons Maker Raytheon’s Influence on US Foreign Policy
Weapons makers like Raytheon don’t just follow U.S. foreign policy; they make it through allies embedded in government.
![Children sit on the rubble of a warehouse after it was hit by airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, on July 2, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2021_0120-yemen-airstrike-400x300.jpg)
US Contributes to Violent Attacks on Yemen While Cutting Back Relief Efforts
Yemeni children are being starved by warring parties whose blockades and bomb attacks have decimated the country.
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Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis Worsened Amid COVID
Yemenis have been left battling war, disease and the effects of climate change on a shrinking aid budget.
![President Donald Trump give a thumbs up after speaking to the media as he departs for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center from the White House on July 11, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-1226303130-400x300.jpg)
Trump Hasn’t Held Back US Military Power — He Has Enabled and Escalated It
Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept calls Trump's anti-war posturing “a bad parody.”
![Yemeni relatives visit graves of their relatives who were killed in the ongoing Yemeni civil war at a cemetery on November 6, 2020 in Sana'a, Yemen.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-1284217233-400x300.jpg)
Biden Must Address Yemen on Day One and Move Immediately to Prevent Future Wars
A war powers resolution would set a powerful precedent, while also reversing course in Yemen.
![Activists from the Guantanamo Justice Campaign, a group calling for the U.S. to close its Guantanamo Bay prison camp, and for the British government to lobby the United States to this end, demonstrate in orange detainee jumpsuits outside the Houses of Parliament in London.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/11/GettyImages-1200368107-400x300.jpg)
Guantánamo Prisoners Sent to UAE Risk Forced Expulsion, Secret Detention
Human rights observers are concerned by the role the United Arab Emirates is playing in facilitating U.S. abuses.
![U.S. Cuts Aid to Yemen While Fuels War and Famine](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/09/s1-yemen-400x300.jpg)
US Cuts Aid to Yemen While Fueling War and Famine
What is happening in Yemen is not a natural disaster but a human-made catastrophe directly tied to U.S. policies.