{"id":3328,"date":"2026-10-26T19:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:03:50","slug":"egypt-approves-military-support-for-saudi-arabia-after-houthi-attacks-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3328","title":{"rendered":"Egypt approves military support for Saudi Arabia after Houthi attacks escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Parliament authorised Egypt\u2019s military on Monday to provide support to help defend Saudi Arabia, parliamentarians said, and local media reported, a move that could push Cairo directly into the regional conflict \u200bthat has expanded with intensified attacks by Yemen\u2019s Houthis on the Gulf kingdom.<\/strong><\/p>\n

President \u200cAbdel Fattah al-Sisi had asked parliament last week to approve defending its Gulf Arab ally and the world\u2019s biggest oil exporter if Riyadh requests help against the Houthis, whose advances also threaten the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait \u2014 a gateway to Egypt\u2019s Suez \u200bCanal.<\/p>\n

Egypt has frequently condemned Iranian and Iranian-backed attacks on Gulf countries but has not publicly \u200bengaged in direct combat or joined the Mecca mutual defence pact between Saudi Arabia, \u2060Pakistan and Turkiye that was signed in August.<\/p>\n

Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said this month that Egyptian membership in \u200bthe pact remains \u201cunder serious consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Egypt, the Arab world\u2019s most populous state with one of the region\u2019s largest \u200bmilitaries, joined the Saudi-led coalition in an earlier phase of Yemen\u2019s war in March 2015 mainly as a naval partner, sending warships to secure Red Sea shipping lanes while pledging air support. It also deployed around 800 ground troops but \u200bplayed only a limited combat role.<\/p>\n

Egypt was involved in a costly military intervention in Yemen in the \u200b1960s and has not undertaken a large-scale foreign ground deployment since the 1991 Gulf War.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia is a major \u200cpolitical and \u2060financial partner of Cairo, providing billions of dollars in aid, deposits at the central bank and energy supplies under Sisi.<\/p>\n

Fighting between the Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen\u2019s internationally recognised government and the Houthi militia, which controls the capital Sanaa, has escalated in recent weeks, becoming a volatile front in the US-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n

The \u200bHouthis have attacked Riyadh\u2019s international airport and the state \u2060oil giant Saudi Aramco, disrupting flights and oil exports, while aid agencies have warned of worsening conditions in Yemen, already suffering one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian \u200bcrises.<\/p>\n

Abdelatty and Egyptian intelligence chief Hassan Rashad travelled to Riyadh on Wednesday \u200bto deliver a \u2060letter to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from Sisi, who said Egypt\u2019s support would be limited to defending Saudi territory and borders rather than attacking Yemen. Abdelatty said after that visit that Cairo advocates exploring \u201cevery opportunity\u201d to \u200bresolve the Yemen conflict diplomatically.<\/p>\n

The Saudi crown prince visited Sisi in Cairo on September 15 to discuss security and navigation in the Red Sea after the fighting in Yemen reignited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parliament authorised Egypt\u2019s military on Monday to provide support to help defend Saudi Arabia, parliamentarians said, and local media reported, a move that could push Cairo directly into the regional conflict \u200bthat has expanded with intensified attacks by Yemen\u2019s Houthis on the Gulf kingdom. President \u200cAbdel Fattah al-Sisi had asked parliament last week to approve defending its Gulf Arab ally and the world\u2019s biggest oil exporter if Riyadh requests help against the Houthis, whose advances also threaten the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait \u2014 a gateway to Egypt\u2019s Suez \u200bCanal. Egypt…<\/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-3328","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\/3328","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=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}