Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan sign key defense agreement, officials say
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca on Friday (Aug 7), wedding Sunni Muslim US allies alarmed at a regional conflagration that has rained missile fire onto Gulf oil exporters.
Iran and its allies have been firing on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, and blockading their energy shipments, since the US and Israel attacked it on Feb 28 in a major escalation after years of regional tumult.
The agreement is intended to strengthen collective deterrence against any act of aggression and stipulates that an armed attack against any of the three would be
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca on Friday (Aug 7), wedding Sunni Muslim US allies alarmed at a regional conflagration that has rained missile fire onto Gulf oil exporters.
The agreement is intended to strengthen collective deterrence against any act of aggression and stipulates that an armed attack against any of the three would be
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Iran and its allies have been firing on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, and blockading their energy shipments, since the US and Israel attacked it on Feb 28 in a major escalation after years of regional tumult.