Report says US officials met with Yemen’s Houthis in bid to end war
Timothy Lenderking sat down with the Houthis' lead negotiator late last month.
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The Biden administration opened talks with Houthi rebel leaders late last month in a bid to end Yemen’s civil war, Reuters reported Wednesday.
Timothy Lenderking, the lead US envoy on the Yemen crisis, met with Houthi chief negotiator Mohammed Abdul-Salam in Oman’s capital, Muscat, on Feb. 26.