US officials: Biden aide to meet Saudi crown prince on Yemen

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s nationalist information advisor Jake Sullivan is traveling to Saudi Arabia. Sullivan is to conscionable with Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman arsenic the U.S. presses for a cease-fire successful the yearslong warfare betwixt the kingdom and Houthi rebels successful Yemen. That’s according to 2 elder medication officials who spoke connected the information of anonymity. Sullivan travels Monday and volition beryllium the highest-ranking Biden medication authoritative to sojourn Saudi Arabia. The White House has mostly steered wide of the crown prince since making nationalist a CIA study that showed helium apt approved the sidesplitting of Washington Post columnist and Saudi professional Jamal Khashoggi.