Saudi Al Arabiya Hadath reported an Iraqi delegation visited Tehran and met Iranian officials to convey a message from the US, citing anonymous sources. The visit lasted about eight hours and came after US envoy Tom Barrack’s trip to Baghdad and a phone call between US President Trump and Iraqi prime minister al-Zaidi; the report did not identify delegation members, Iranian interlocutors, or the content of the US message.

A senior Houthi source said on the 7th that Saudi Arabia and Syria recently agreed a military cooperation arrangement to deploy ground forces to the Saudi–Yemen border and inside Yemen to support the Yemeni government. The source said the deal was reached during a recent visit to Saudi Arabia by Syrian transitional president Ahmad Sharaa, but gave no deployment details and said no Syrian combatants have yet been observed on Yemen’s front lines. Syrian officers have reportedly visited Saudi Arabia to survey potential deployment sites, front-line conditions and logistics routes. Saudi and Syria signed a defence-cooperation agreement in Riyadh on the 4th; Syrian state media on the 7th quoted a Syrian foreign ministry source saying claims Syria would send troops to Yemen lack basis and that current cooperation is limited to training, experience-sharing and military advice focused on capacity building, which could later develop into a joint defence agreement.

CATL said it and Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco) signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Ningde, Fujian. The partners will cooperate on R&D of new nonferrous metal materials, circular recycling of metals, direct green-power connections and energy storage, high-altitude source-grid-load-storage integration, and support for globalized industrial supply chains.