Houthis Strike Saudi Refinery, Testing New Defense Pact

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis attacked Saudi Aramco’s Jazan refinery on Sunday, they said. The strike comes two days after Saudi Arabia signed a defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan. The agreement aims to strengthen collective deterrence against aggression. It states that an armed attack on any of the three countries will be seen as an attack on all. The pact responds to growing regional instability linked to the US-Israeli war on Iran. All three nations are Sunni Muslim allies of the United States. It was not clear how much damage the refinery attack caused.