Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met in the Saudi city of Mecca on Friday to sign a pact called the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement.
Among other provisions, the agreement calls on all three countries to respond to an attack on any of them — a clause the Saudis might be able to invoke almost immediately as they have been suffering drone and missile strikes from Iran and its terrorist proxy in Yemen, the Houthis.
The Saudi military said on Thursday that 11 civilians were injured by “terrorist attacks using indiscriminate shelling against civilian objects” from the...
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