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    Children Again Pay The Price in Yemen's War As Focus Shifts To Accountability

    The United Nations says 22 children were killed in an airstrike and puts the blame on the Saudi-led forces intervening in the civil war.
    by Larry Kaplow Aug 24, 2018 2 minutes
    A Yemeni woman and a girl, displaced from the coastal city of Hodeidah, sit at a shelter in Sanaa, Yemen, on Aug. 17. Thursday's airstrike took place near Hodeidah.

    For the second time this month the United Nations has blamed the Saudi-led forces fighting in Yemen's civil war for an airstrike that killed children.

    There were conflicting reports about the death toll in the strike, which occurred Thursday, and about who committed it. But the United Nations top humanitarian official the attack on the Saudi-led forces, saying that at least 26

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