The Trump administration ratcheted up pressure on Saudi Arabia over the war in Yemen, demanding an immediate ceasefire and summoning all parties in the conflict to peace talks in Sweden within a month. In some of the strongest language yet heard from Washington over the four-year war, James Mattis, the defence secretary, said that the US had been watching the conflict “for long enough” and could not sit back and allow it to go on. “We have got to move towards a peace effort here and we can’t say we are going to do it sometime in the future,” he told the United States Institute of Peace. “We need to be doing this in the next 30 days.”Three hours later, Mike Pompeo, the secretary…

Source: The Times November 01, 2018 00:06 UTC