By Desmond Nleya
Military chiefs from Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan are preparing for urgent talks following a series of attacks by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement against Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the meeting will bring together the three countries’ chiefs of staff as regional tensions continue to escalate.
The planned talks come amid renewed fighting in Yemen, where Saudi-backed government forces have been engaged in clashes with the Houthis, including near Al-Hazm.
The meeting is expected to focus on the deteriorating regional security situation and the implications of recent Houthi attacks on the Saudi kingdom.
Meanwhile, wider diplomatic tensions remain high at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran wants the United States to return to a memorandum of understanding by early November, while Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of pursuing policies that threaten the future of Palestinians and the prospects for a two-state solution.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, addressing the UN amid a walkout by dozens of diplomats, defended Israel’s decision to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, describing it as one of the easiest decisions he had made as prime minister.
