Iona Craig

The US-Saudi War on Yemen: Death in al Ghayil

by Iona Craig | Mar 10, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Women and Children in Yemeni Village Recall Horror of Trump’s “Highly Successful” SEAL Raid ON JANUARY 29, 5-year-old Sinan al Ameri was asleep with his mother, his aunt, and 12 other children in a one-room stone hut typical of poor rural villages in the highlands of Yemen. A little after 1 a.m., the women and children awoke to the sound of a gunfight erupting a few hundred feet away. Roughly 30 members of Navy SEAL Team 6 were storming the eastern hillside of the remote settlement. According to residents of the village of al Ghayil, in Yemen’s al Bayda province, the first to die in the...

Iona Craig is a British-Irish independent journalist. She was previously based in Yemen from 2010 to 2015 as The Times (of London) Yemen correspondent. Her work has appeared in the Irish Times, the Los Angeles Times, on Al Jazeera America, the BBC and elsewhere. In 2014 she won the U.K.'s most prestigious award for investigative journalism, the Martha Gellhorn Prize, for her reporting on America's covert war in Yemen.

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