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Esther Brito Ruiz, Adjunct Instructor, American University School of International Service

Headlines and front lines: How US news coverage of wars in Yemen and Ukraine reveals a bias in recording civilian harm

The U.S. has provided Ukraine more than $75 billion in military and other aid to support its war efforts. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images

War entails suffering. How and how often that suffering is reported on in the U.S., however, is not evenhanded.

Take, for example, the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen in March 2015 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The media attention afforded to the crises reveals biases that relate less to the human consequences of the conflicts than to the United States’ role and relationship with the warring parties involved.

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