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Middle EastUS: Houthis spurned opportunity by shunning UN Yemen envoy Reuters 2 minute read Yemen's Houthi group passed up a major opportunity to show a commitment to peace by refusing to meet with a U.N. mediator in Oman, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. It also accused the Houthis of worsening Yemen's humanitarian crisis by attacking Marib, the last northern stronghold of the Saudi-backed government that the Houthis drove out of the capital, and "exacerbating dire conditions for already-vulnerable internally displaced Yemenis." Since taking office in January, U.S. President Joe Bid...

× A Palestinian family prepare traditional pastries to be sold in preparation for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr holiday which marks the end of Ramadan, in the village of Susya in the southern area of Hebron, on May 7, 2021. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP) 1/4 Israeli police use a water cannon to disperse Palestinian protesters from the area near the Damascus Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem after clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Friday, May 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) 2/4 A member of UNIFIL monitors from a hill by the border facing the Israeli northern town of Metula, during a ceremon...

Date Time U.S. Special Envoy Lenderking Returns from Travel to Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Jordan U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking returned on May 6 from travel to Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Jordan. In Saudi Arabia, he held meetings with senior government officials, including Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, to stress the need to ease all restrictions at Hudaydah Port and Sana’a Airport, reach a comprehensive, nationwide ceasefire, and move to inclusive political talks. Separately, U.S. Special Envoy Lenderking and UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths met twice with the P5 ...

WASHINGTON: The US State Department said on Friday the Iran-backed Houthi group had passed up a “major opportunity” to demonstrate a commitment to peace by refusing to meet with UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths in Muscat. In a statement, the department also charged that the militia were worsening the humanitarian situation in Yemen by continuing to attack Marib. “Contradictory to their pronouncements regarding the humanitarian situation in Yemen, the Houthis worsen it by continuing to attack Marib and exacerbating dire conditions for already vulnerable, internally displaced Yemenis,�...

Houthi representatives “passed up a major opportunity” by refusing to meet in Oman with United Nations special envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths, the US State Department said on Friday, urging all parties to negotiate an end to the brutal six-year conflict. “There is a fair deal on the table that will bring immediate relief to Yemeni people,” the State Department said in a statement released upon the return to the United States of Special Envoy Tim Lenderking from a round of meetings in Oman, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. “Contrary to their pronouncements regarding the humanitarian situat...