As World s Worst Humanitarian Crisis Rages, the Perfect Storm is Blowing Up in Yemen
On 2/26/21 at 8:03 PM EST
But another deadly threat is likely to lurk for some time IEDs.
Improvised explosive devices are killing Yemenis at alarming rates, with little international attention.
Across the war-torn country militias, militant groups, criminals and mercenaries are exploiting the shortcomings of global disarmament and peacekeeping efforts to wage a war within a war, targeting civilians and fighters alike with a weapon that has come to symbolize today s asymmetrical warfare. I d say that IEDs are still a blind spot of the international community despite the IED having been the defining weapon for over 20 years since the 9/11 attacks, Iain Overton, executive director of United Kingdom-based nonprofit Action on Armed Violence, told
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