US to remain in Yemeni conflict on side of Saudi-led coalition
This is despite mounting pressure from American senators for withdrawal from the war
The US administration wanted to continue support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s war and would remain engaged in efforts to combat Iranian influence and Islamist militancy in the Arab state, a State Department official said on Sunday. Since the October 2 murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate, the US administration has come under pressure at home over the conflict that has gone on for nearly four years. The Senate last month voted to advance a resolution to end US military support, which includes arms sales and intelligence sharing, for the Western-backed Sunni Muslim coalition that intervened in 2015 against the Iranian-aligned Houthis to restore the internationally recognised government. “There are pressures in our system ... to either withdraw from the conflict or discontinue our support of the coalition, which we are strongly opposed to on the administration side,” said Timothy Lenderking, deputy assistant secretary for Ara...
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