عربستان سعودی

Separate calls involving Pakistan's defence chief and Saudi Arabia's foreign minister show Islamabad trying to contain regional spillover without promising military action.

The meeting followed Houthi advances near Bab al-Mandeb and cross-border attacks, with diplomats warning that renewed warfare threatens civilians, aid operations and international shipping.

The capture places Houthi forces on the island dividing the strategic waterway’s two shipping channels and raises new risks for Red Sea traffic.

The request marks a reversal from Riyadh's earlier preference to handle the confrontation itself as Houthi advances threaten the Bab el-Mandeb shipping route.

Low distillate inventories and disrupted supplies from the Middle East, Russia and China point to elevated transport and agricultural costs extending well into next year.

The coastal breakthrough gives the Yemeni movement greater leverage near Bab el-Mandeb as regional fighting threatens shipping, energy flows and an already severe humanitarian crisis.

Clashes across several Yemeni fronts and renewed cross-border attacks are displacing thousands of families and putting the fragile UN-led political process under greater strain.

Islamabad’s warning gives the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani security agreement its first serious test as fighting in Yemen again spills across borders.

Fresh clashes and cross-border attacks are threatening the 2022 truce framework while displacement rises near the Red Sea shipping corridor.

Relatives of the detained businessman are asking Britain to intervene, while carefully framing torture, abduction and secret-trial claims as allegations not independently established by officials.

The campaign opens new fronts against the Houthis while displacement and civilian casualties deepen fears that Yemen is returning to large-scale war.

The benchmark crossed the threshold for the first time since July, transmitting renewed US–Iran and Yemen-related security risks into inflation expectations.