The first was in 2009 in the southern village of al-Majalah. Those deaths came in two raids reportedly targeting al-Rimi. has killed at least 66 civilians, 31 of them children, in the unsuccessful hunt for one man, Qassim al-Rimi, one of AQAP's founders who in 2015 succeeded al-Wahishi as the group's chief. Another database, by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, counted 331 killed the past two years.įor example, the U.S. The Bureau for Investigative Journalism counted up to 1,020 killed by strikes from 2009 to 2016, under President Barack Obama, compared to up to 205 killed in 20. Several databases are trying to track the deaths, with varying results. In comparison, the toll from U.S drones in Yemen runs in the hundreds, including both militants and civilians. Yet the killing of a single man - Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, slain by Saudi operatives in his own country’s consulate - has raised more international uproar than any of those deaths in a war waged by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia and baked by the U.S. More than 57,000 civilians and combatants have been killed in Yemen’s civil war, by some estimates, and thousands more may have died of starvation caused by the conflict. allies in the Saudi-led coalition’s air campaign against Iranian-backed Shiite rebels known as Houthis. Immensely greater destruction has been wreaked by U.S. The drone toll goes almost unnoticed in the region’s conflicts. ![]() who were hit in strikes away from the front lines while engaged in civilian life. ![]() ![]() Most of those killed, 24, were civilians at least 6 others were fighters in pro-government forces - meaning ostensibly on the same side as the U.S. The AP based its count on interviews with witnesses, families, tribal leaders and activists.
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