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Donald Trump has been sentenced to death for alleged war crimes by a court in Yemen.
The US President was sentenced with nine other defendants including a Saudi King and Prince.
The court issued death sentences against Trump, Saudi King Salman, the Saudi Crown Prince, Commander of the Saudi Air Force Turki bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz, and Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
Yemen’s Vice President Ali Mohsin Al-Ahmar, Prime Minister Ahmed bin Dagher, Defence Minister Muhammad Al-Maqdishi, and former US Defence Secretary James Mattis were also sentenced to death.
The court also ruled that the accused should pay $10 billion to the families of those killed in the 2019 airstrike.
The charges related to an airstrike which reportedly hit a school bus, killing 51 people including 40 children.
Yemen’s internationally-recognised government has been battling the Iran-backed Houthi movement, which has seized most of the north of the country and the capital Sana’a, since 2014.
A Saudi-led military coalition joined on the side of the government the following year.
The United Nations has called the Yemeni conflict the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.
More than 100,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed and millions more displaced
The Yemeni government’s Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the Houthi-run criminal court should be shut down in 2018.
Meanwhile, the President returned to the Oval Office on Wednesday, less than a week after testing positive for coronavirus.
