The Daily Digest
Yemen's Houthis have been launching attacks on Saudi Arabia from Iraqi territory, Reuters reported this afternoon citing unnamed sources — an account of the launch-origin question Baghdad spent the day rejecting. Government spokesman al-Aboudi said the government had granted no approval for attacks on specific sites or groups inside Iraqi territory and had no prior knowledge of them; the foreign ministry said no evidence supports Riyadh's claim that a drone attack originated in Iraq, and Baghdad separately denied any strikes on neighbouring states from its soil.
Asharq al-Awsat's own reading is that Iraq avoided admitting the Gulf attacks were launched from its territory "to avoid premature confrontation". The same spokesman's remarks, relayed by Unit 10,000 (Kataib Hezbollah — affiliated), also carried the suspension of the prime minister's visit to Saudi Arabia.
Ahmad al-Mousawi, deputy chairman of the Sadiqoun bloc, said on Al-Ahad TV (Asaib Ahl al-Haq — official) at 19:58 on 30 July that "Saudi targeting of official security headquarters is a declaration of war against Iraq", that the Baghdad-Washington security agreement must be reviewed, and that Iraqis "can enter Saudi Arabia in two days but they are waiting for the government's position" — the desk notes this is the only item in the window that identifies what was allegedly struck.
On the same station a member of the parliamentary security and defence committee asked the speaker to convene an emergency session with al-Zaidi present, saying no summons would be sent to the Saudi ambassador "for fear of hurting his feelings"; , and no faction has claimed any response to the strikes.