{"id":7267,"date":"2019-03-28T15:16:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/7267-uk-troops-accused-of-training-child-soldiers-in-yemen\/"},"modified":"2019-03-28T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:16:29","slug":"uk-troops-accused-of-training-child-soldiers-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/7267-uk-troops-accused-of-training-child-soldiers-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"UK troops accused of training child soldiers in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK Foreign Office minister Mark Field has promised to get to the bottom of \u201cvery serious and well sourced\u201d allegations that British special forces have been training child soldiers in the Saudi-led war against Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>UK Foreign Office minister Mark Field has promised to get to the bottom of \u201cvery serious and well sourced\u201d allegations that British special forces have been training child soldiers in the Saudi-led war against Yemen.<\/h4>\n<h4>He was answering an urgent question asked in the Commons on Tuesday by the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, who suggested the British troops may have been witnesses to war crimes.<\/h4>\n<h4>She claimed as many as 40 percent of the soldiers in the Saudi coalition were children, a breach of international humanitarian law.<\/h4>\n<h4>Field also said he would be making inquiries with the UK Ministry of Defence in light of a report that British Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers were injured in a firefight with the Houthi Ansarullah movement in Yemen.<\/h4>\n<h4>The UK government has a general policy of not discussing the operations of its special forces but Field seemed determined to provide an explanation to members of Parliament.<\/h4>\n<h4>There had been social media reports from Yemen in February suggesting that British soldiers had been injured in a firefight, and the Daily Express newspaper claimed two SAS members had been injured during a \u201chumanitarian\u201d operation.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Foreign Office minister Mark Field has promised to get to the bottom of \u201cvery serious and well sourced\u201d allegations that British special forces have been training child soldiers in the Saudi-led war against Yemen. \u00a0 UK Foreign Office minister Mark Field has promised to get to the bottom of \u201cvery serious and well sourced\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[292,855,135,68],"class_list":["post-7267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-children","tag-soldier","tag-united-kingdom","tag-yemen"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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