September 4, 2015

Twenty-two soldiers (click here) from the United Arab Emirates have been killed in Yemen while fighting Houthi rebels as part of a Saudi-led coalition, state media say.

The military statement did not specify the circumstances of their deaths.
The Abu Dhabi-based newspaper, The National, reported that they were killed by explosions at an ammunition store in Marib province.
Houthi sources told the Reuters news agency that the blasts were triggered by a rocket fired at a coalition camp.
The UN says some 4,500 people - including at least 2,110 civilians - have been killed in fighting on the ground and by coalition air strikes since late March.

Peace talks between all the parties including Saudi Arabia and a representative from the coalition. Iran has to be a partner to peace in Yemen as well. Yemen as well as Syria and Iraq have many ethnicities between them. That means there needs to be representatives from all ethnicities are included in the peace talks. The region talks to end hostilities have to include their military forces as well, including Saudi Arabia, UAE and Iran. There is no excuse for a conflict between the Sunnis and the Shi'ites. A peace between them will result in a greater stability to the region.

The UN is stating their are 1500 civilians dead. Other sources state over 3000 are dead. The peace has to engage with the understanding peace exists between the two majority ethnic groups of the region. This is ridiculous. The enemy is Daesh, not each other!

A Yemeni militiaman in the ruins of the house of a commander loyal to the Houthis after it was hit by two airstrikes allegedly carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in Sana’’a. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA 

7 July 2015
By Kareem Shaheen

The shrapnel wounds and burns (click here) are now a familiar sight for the doctors ensconced without respite in the Sheikh Othman hospital in Aden.
The latest victims were 30 civilians, who streamed into the clinic on Monday after a Saudi airstrike on a livestock market in province of Lahj, not far from Aden. The air raid claimed 50 lives in one of the deadliest days in Yemen’s three-month-long war, which has devastated the Arab world’s poorest country.
“This is the most terrible conflict I’ve seen so far because it never ends,” said Thierry Goffeau, head of mission for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Yemen, a veteran of Somalia and Gaza who was on hand to treat the Lahj victims. “Every day, every day, there isn’t a single day of truce. Every day screams and dead people.”
On Tuesday, the United Nations’ human rights office said the number of civilians killed in the violence had risen above 1,500. According to other estimates, however, the mounting death toll exceeds 3,000 civiliansIn one of the bloodiest days of the campaign, air strikes on Monday claimed the lives of more than 120 people, according to local media....