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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.
Sharif calls Pakistan’s commitment to Saudi Arabia resolute; a day earlier Fidan said the Makkah pact is not an attack agreement and Turkey will send no troops to attack.
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 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.
