WASHINGTON: The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on two military leaders of the Houthi movement in Yemen, accusing them of prolonging the country’s civil war and exacerbating the humanitarian crisis. The US Treasury Department in a statement said it blacklisted Mansur Al-Saadi, the Houthi naval forces chief of staff, and Ahmad Ali Ahsan al-Hamzi, the commander of Yemen’s Houthi-aligned Yemeni air force and air defense forces.

Published in Dawn, March 3rd, 2021