Saudi-led coalition denies supplying Houthis, al Qaeda-linked fighters with US weapons in Yemen

The coalition’s denial comes on the heels of a CNN investigation published earlier this week that found Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners had supplied American-made weapons to al Qaeda-linked fighters, hard-line Salafi militias and other factions battling in Yemen — a violation of their arms sales agreements with the United States.

Coalition spokesman Col. Turki Al-Malki “strongly denied those claims,” per a report from the Saudi Press Agency, and said the idea that weapons were transferred to third parties was “illogical.”