Riyadh, March 18 -- Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry has announced that it will host "the foreign ministers of a group of Arab and Islamic countries" for a high-level meeting in the capital, Riyadh, on Wednesday evening.

According to a post on X by the Saudi foreign ministry, this consultative session is set to focus specifically on "consultation and coordination regarding ways to support the security and stability of the region."

These critical discussions are taking place against a landscape of rapidly intensifying hostilities throughout the Middle East.

The regional situation worsened following a combined American and Israeli military operation against Iran on 28 February, to which Tehran responded with multiple rounds of drone and m...