{"id":2158,"date":"2026-10-05T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:05:08","slug":"makkah-pact-committee-to-meet-in-riyadh-today-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"Makkah pact committee to meet in Riyadh today: Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A committee of the Makkah defence pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey will hold talks in \u200cRiyadh on Monday, with Turkish ministers among those attending, the Turkish foreign ministry said as the fighting between Yemeni government forces and the Houthi militia escalates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/head-yemens-presidential-council-announces-military-operations-retake-territory-2026-10-04\/\">The leader of Yemen\u2019s Saudi-backed government<\/a> \u200bannounced on Sunday the beginning of \u2060a major military operation against the Iran-backed \u200bHouthis earlier on Sunday, aimed at seizing \u200bthe territory under their control.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/pakistan-says-mecca-pact-members-hold-emergency-talks-engaging-houthis-2026-10-02\/\">Pakistan\u2019s foreign minister said on Friday<\/a> that Iran had suggested engaging Yemen\u2019s \u200bHouthis politically after attacks by the \u200bgroup, an idea that the Makkah defence pact \u200ccommittee \u2060would discuss at a meeting in Riyadh this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe meeting will address recent developments in the region and the stage \u200breached in \u200bthe Alliance\u2019s \u2060institutionalisation efforts,\u201d the Turkish statement said.<\/p>\n<p>It said Turkish Foreign Minister \u200bHakan Fidan, Defence Minister Yasar Guler \u200band \u2060chief of the General Staff General Selcuk Bayraktaroglu would attend the meeting of the \u2060pact\u2019s \u200bstrategic political and defence \u200bcommittee, along with officials from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A committee of the Makkah defence pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey will hold talks in \u200cRiyadh on Monday, with Turkish ministers among those attending, the Turkish foreign ministry said as the fighting between Yemeni government forces and the Houthi militia escalates. The leader of Yemen\u2019s Saudi-backed government \u200bannounced on Sunday the beginning of \u2060a major military operation against the Iran-backed \u200bHouthis earlier on Sunday, aimed at seizing \u200bthe territory under their control. Pakistan\u2019s foreign minister said on Friday that Iran had suggested engaging Yemen\u2019s \u200bHouthis politically after attacks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}