Biden announces end to US support for Saudi-led offensive in Yemen

Biden said this war has to end' in state department speech outlining overhaul of Trump's foreign policies

Joe Biden has announced an end to US support for Saudi-led offensive operations in Yemen, as part of a broad reshaping of American foreign policy.

In his first foreign policy speech as president, Biden signaled that the US would no longer be an unquestioning ally to the Gulf monarchies, announced a more than eightfold increase in the number of refugees the country would accept, and declared that the days of a US president rolling over" for Vladimir Putin were over.