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Axios reports Ahmed al-Sharaa is weighing a Saudi request for up to 20,000 Syrian troops against the Houthis. Former HTS fighters in Yemen would turn the war religious, yet Sharaa will likely agree.
The Houthis have frozen Yemen’s Mokha front and turned missiles on Saudi airports. Trump offered Riyadh everything except bombs, so Saudi Arabia is building the coalition, with Pakistan and Türkiye, that will finish the war without him.
Saudi-backed forces have retaken ground on Yemen’s Red Sea coast, but the war will be settled at Taiz and by how long Saudi Arabia can absorb Houthi missiles. Patriot stocks, the economy and the Mecca Pact set the endgame.
Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan invoked the Mecca Pact on October 5 as Rubio backed Riyadh’s right to defend itself but named no US action.
