Despite Yemen Violence Spike, Saudi Says Talks With Houthis Progressing

Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud poses for the media at Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, on March 27, 2019. Fabrizio Bensch

MUNICH—Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Saturday that Riyadh was still committed to back-channel peace talks with Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, despite a recent increase in violence in the five-year conflict.

Yemen has been mired in fighting since the Iran-backed Houthi movement ousted the government of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi from the capital in late 2014.