Ukrainian arms makers have warned their own government that slow, insufficient ordering by the state, not Russian attacks, could be what stops weapons reaching the front next, and they have proposed fixes.
President Donald Trump confirmed he personally approved a Secret Service request to switch the aircraft he was flying during this month's NATO summit in Turkey, after a threat linked to Iran targeted Air Force One, the plane presidents normally use.
According to The Washington Post, Donald Trump did not leave this month's NATO summit in Turkey the way he has publicly described.
On August 7, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed a pact in Mecca promising to defend each other if attacked, similar to NATO's rule that an attack on one member is an attack on all.
Ukraine bought 70 ATACMS, a US-made long-range missile, from Turkey instead of the US.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have signed a new pact promising to defend one another if attacked, as unrest spreads across the Middle East.
For fifty years, powerful states kept dangerous technology behind a lock and rationed access as leverage. This week showed that reflex failing on three fronts at once — and what is replacing it.
At NATO's Ankara summit, Lee Jae-myung proposed a 'Defense Industry Partnership 2.0' and opened talks on a procurement pact that would give South Korea access to NATO's roughly $9.9 billion joint arms market. The bigger question is whether manufacturing capacity translates into institutional standing, or whether Seoul ends up as a well-armed outsider.
Senator Lindsey Graham says the White House has agreed to a version of his Russia sanctions bill, clearing the way for a Senate vote and threatening 500 percent tariffs on countries that keep buying Russian energy. The announcement lands the same week Turkey's foreign minister says Washington is moving to lift its own sanctions on Ankara — a reminder that in this administration, sanctions are less a fixed wall than a lever.
Trump says Washington will drop the CAATSA sanctions on Turkey and weigh an F-35 sale, a deal struck face-to-face with Erdoğan that could rewire NATO's eastern flank. Here is what happened, why it matters, and what remains unconfirmed.