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6 Nov 2017 – Meanwhile, Saudi-Iranian proxy conflicts took turns for the worse: The Saudi military warned Tehran that a failed missile strike on Riyadh, the Saudi capital, by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels could be “considered an act of war.” 

And in Lebanon, the Shiite militia Hezbollah sought to de-escalate a leadership crisis after the surprise resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri during a trip to Saudi Arabia.