
Timothy Lenderking, the newly tapped U.S. special envoy for Yemen, is in Saudi Arabia this week, just days after President Joe Biden moved to terminate the U.S. role in the Yemen conflict by cutting off offensive support for the Saudi-led coalition.
The official Saudi Press Agency showed pictures on Wednesday of Lenderking meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh. “He is going to be delivering a new message to them about their actions in Yemen,” a former senior Trump administration official familiar with the trip told Foreign Policy, including an explanation of why the United States cut support to the Saudi-led coalition.