HOUTHI FIGHTERS. Newly recruited Houthi fighters stand during a rally to commemorate the late leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, and to show support to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen, on October 4, 2024.
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The drone attack on Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery coincides with Saudi Arabia's new defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan amid regional instability
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have attacked Saudi Aramco’s Jazan refinery, they said on Sunday, August 9, two days after the kingdom signed a defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan in response to growing regional instability from the US-Israeli war on Iran.
The alliance with Sunni Muslim US allies, Turkey and Pakistan, is intended to strengthen collective deterrence against any act of aggression and stipulates that an armed attack against any of the three would be regarded as an attack on all.
