Headline RoundupJanuary 21st, 2022

Saudi-Led Airstrike Kills 70 in Yemen as Biden Considers Houthi Terrorist Designation

Summary from the AllSides News Team

An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed at least 70 people and injured over 130 in the city of Saada on Friday. 

Another strike reportedly hit a telecommunications building in the city of Hodeidah, knocking out internet access throughout the country. The airstrikes were the latest escalation in Yemen’s civil war as it continued into its eighth year and extended the country’s humanitarian crisis. On Monday, Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for a drone attack that killed three oil workers — two Indians and one Pakistani — in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The drone attack prompted Emirati officials to formally ask the U.S. to reinstate the Houthis as a terrorist organization. When a reporter at President Joe Biden’s Wednesday press conference asked if he was considering this, Biden said, “It’s under consideration. And ending the war in Yemen takes the two parties to be involved to do it.  And it’s going to be very difficult.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken previously removed the Houthis from the terrorist list in February 2021. 

Coverage was more common on the left than on the right. Some outlets on the left published explainers on the situation after the Abu Dhabi attack. 

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