Name: Beyond the Headlines: Saudi Arabia is now facing pressure from two directions at once
Uploaded: 2026-07-31T13:16:00.000Z
Duration: 58 s

Beyond the Headlines: Saudi Arabia is now facing pressure from two directions at once

In Yemen, a strike on Sanaa airport reignited a conflict with the Houthis that had been largely dormant, leading to attacks on Saudi shipping and claimed strikes on oil facilities in Jizan and Yanbu. In Iraq, months of accusations that Iran-backed militias were launching drones from Iraqi soil culminated this week as Saudi Arabia joined the US in direct, public strikes, for the first time. On this week's Beyond the Headlines, we ask what this means for the wider US-Iran war, with Douglas Silliman, former US ambassador to Iraq, Hasan Alhasan, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and Elizabeth Dent, senior fellow at the Washington Institute.

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