The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on two Houthi military officials, the US Treasury Department said, taking action over the Iran-aligned movement's offensive to seize Yemen's gas-rich Marib region.
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US Special Envoy on Yemen Tim Lenderking earlier on Thursday urged the group battling a Saudi-led coalition for over six years to de-escalate and engage seriously with US and UN efforts for a ceasefire needed to end the war, a top foreign policy priority for the Biden administration.
He also urged the Saudi-led military alliance to remove restrictions on all Yemeni ports and airports to ease what the United Nations says is the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
He said the United States would impose sanctions on the head of the general staff leading the Houthi's Marib offensive, Muhammad Abd Al-Karim al-Ghamari, and on a leader of Houthi forces assigned to the advance, Yusuf al-Madani.
The US State Department also blacklisted al-Madani as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).
