April 27, 2018
By Aric Toler
On April 22, the Saudi-led coalition carried out multiple airstrikes on a wedding in Yemen’s Hajjah Governorate, with reports of at least 33 dead, including the bride. Reportedly, the majority of casualties were women and children. Survivors of the attack described how the jets continued to circle the bombing site after the attack, preventing first…
February 2, 2017
In the early morning of Jan. 29, special forces of the United States (US) raided a remote outpost of al-Qaida leaders in southern Yemen. The surprise attack was said to have secured “valuable intelligence” but resulted in the death of one US Navy SEAL and allegedly up to thirty civilians. This survey takes a closer…
January 25, 2017
A recent review of satellite imagery shows that UAE forces may be pulling their surface to air missile systems out from key deployment locations within Yemen. Left: DigitalGlobe imagery of the Patriot site in Aden dated 08OCT16 / Right: 24OCT16 Satellite imagery confirms that UAE Patriots departed from at least two of their three known deployment locations within…
December 1, 2016
This article was last updated on February 10, 2017. Earlier this year, we examined attacks on Yemen’s water infrastructure by several parties to the conflict. An attack in January 2016 on the water desalination plant (Wikimapia) north of Al-Mocha was central to that open source survey. Earlier this month, new reports emerged that the water desalination…
February 5, 2016
By Brendan Clifford* and Christiaan Triebert** The conflict in Yemen has caused immense suffering, exacerbating the longstanding water crisis in the country. For nearly a year, Yemen’s water infrastructure appears to have been under deliberate attack. This open source intelligence (OSINT) investigation looks into the latest attack (allegedly January 8, 2016) on a water facility,…
October 29, 2015
Transparency International’s Government Defence Index is a unique resource that collects evidence and insights on malpractice in the defence and security sector, worldwide. The most recent version was released today. As the majority of the research for this project involved gathering openly accessible information online (with a very limited part of the evidence coming from closed sources),…
June 17, 2015
By Dan Kaszeta
If we are going to use video and still images to make pronouncements about whether or not certain explosions are nuclear or not, then we must make full advantage of the audio and visual cues available to us on the image or recording. The purpose of this post is to provide some basic information on…
June 2, 2015
By Dan Kaszeta
Recent weeks have seen numerous reports that an explosion in Yemen was a “nuclear bomb” or even a “neutron bomb”. These particular reports, about a large explosion in Yemen in late May 2015 are largely re-circulating due to articles in the widely derided and generally discredited Veterans Today. It is clear to me, for reasons that…
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