The civilian cost of US drone strikes in Yemen is detailed in a new report calling on US President Joe Biden, who has made ending the Middle East country’s wider conflict a foreign policy priority, to also reckon with America's own use of lethal force.
Mwatana for Human Rights, an independent Yemen-based organization, examined 10 US drone strikes and two ground raids targeting suspected terrorists in five Yemeni governorates — Abyan, al-Bayda, Shabwah, Hadramawt and Marib — between January 2017 and January 2019. At least 38 Yemeni civilians, including 13 children and six women, were killed in those 12 counterterrorism operations, according to the report.
