This week reminded us just how far reaching MENA's massive web of conflict can be, when news emerged Monday from Saudi Arabia that two Saudi brothers had been killed during the same day, fighting on opposite sides of different battlefields.
Zaher Al Harethy was a Daesh (ISIS) fighter in Iraq, while his brother Naser was a pilot carrying out bombing missions for the Saudi air campaign against Shiite Houthi rebel positions in Yemen. Naser's plane went down in the southwest Saudi city of Jazan last Thursday, killing him and a co-pilot.
The same day, Daesh announced the death of his brother Zaher, who had carried out suicidal attack north to Baghdad.
According to Al Hayat newspaper, Zaher worked in the Saudi's Ministry of Health before joining Daesh two years ago.
These days, Saudi Arabia finds itself on all sides of MENA conflicts. The government's spent months bombing Yemen, backing the US-led coalition airstrikes in Syria and Iraq and have their hands in Turkey's proposed buffer zone along the Syrian border.
Meanwhile, of more than 50,000 Twitter accounts serving as spokes in Daesh's well oiled propoganda machine, the country with the majority?
You guessed it, Saudi.
Here's one of the tweets, with translation.
الأخوين السعوديين ناصر الحارثي طيار اباتشي زاهر الحارثي مفخخ سيارات داعشي قتلا الأسبوع الماضي باليمن والعراق pic.twitter.com/8DMIIdt8pM
— جاهزون للتضحية (@abdullah70344) August 24, 2015
