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Arms from Iran, Western countries prolonging Yemen’s war: UN

A panel of UN investigators found all of Yemen's rival factions have violated international law and in some cases, may have committed war crimes.
A picture shows the extensive damages at the National Museum in Yemen's third city of Taez on July 13, 2020. - The two faces of the National Museum in Taez, southwest Yemen, are testament to the ravages of the war that has consumed the Arabian peninsula country. One side has been beautifully restored to its former grandeur, recalling a traditional palace from an earlier Arab civilisation. (Photo by AHMAD AL-BASHA / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP via Getty Images)

All parties to the six-year-long war in Yemen are violating international law, and the countries supplying them with weapons are helping perpetuate the conflict, UN investigators said in a new report Wednesday.

For the third year in a row, a panel of UN-appointed experts found that all parties to the conflict — the government of Yemen, the Iran-aligned Houthis, the Emirati-backed Southern Transitional Council and the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition — have committed a range of human rights violations.

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