People inspect the site of an airstrike by Saudi-led coalition forces, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, May, 16, 2019. (Hani Mohammed/Associated Press)SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s internationally recognized president sent a letter to the U.N. secretary-general criticizing his envoy to the war-torn Arab country over allegedly siding with Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, the president’s office said Friday. In the letter addressed to Antonio Guterres, Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi accuses Martin Griffiths, the U.N. special envoy to Yemen, of undermining chances for peace. The conflict in Yemen began with the 2014 takeover of the capital, Sanaa, by the Shiite Houthi rebels. Later on Friday, Houthi rebel leader Mohamed Ali al-Houthi tweeted that Hadi’s letter to the U.N. chief was “a miserable attempt to curtail peace.”___ElHennawy reported from Cairo.

Source: Washington Post May 24, 2019 10:36 UTC