Author: station3

The hospital in southern Yemen was decked out with roses and red carpet runners last week for a ribbon-cutting ceremony in its cardiac wing, newly refurbished with Saudi funds. Many patients, however, had been cleared from the air-conditioned lobby and forced to wait for hours outside in stifling heat, shouting “I’m tired! I’m sick!” at passing dignitaries, among them the Saudi ambassador. Eight years after mobilising troops to topple Huthi rebels and restore Yemen’s internationally backed government, Saudi Arabia is touting reconstruction and development projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars as it pushes for peace. “Our goal is clear:…

A Turkish drone attack Monday in northern Iraq killed at least three fighters from the minority Yazidi community affiliated with the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Iraqi Kurdish officials said. ‘A drone from the Turkish army targeted a vehicle’ in the region, killing an officer and two combattants from the Yazidi Sinjar Resistance Units, a statement from the Kurdistan region’s anti-terrorist squad said. The three fighters were heading towards Sinjar, a stronghold of the Yazidis, at the time of the attack. Turkey has dozens of military facilities in northern Iraq for use in its war against the PKK, and it…