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Ukraine won’t be able to complain they aren’t enough missiles because they’ll be allowed to make their own, President Trump revealed.

President Donald Trump faces some stiff bipartisan opposition in Congress if he intends to proceed with selling F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, as he suggested when he arrived in Ankara for the NATO summit on Tuesday.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said that he opposes the sale of F-35s to Turkey and said that the minute “any nation goes and moves against Israel, then, I, absolutely, will change my

NATO would be wise to welcome Ukraine as a member of the alliance and should hurry to send more missiles to Kyiv, President Zelensky said.

Turkish officials said on Sunday that over a hundred people were detained during an anti-NATO protest march organized by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP). Riot police were called in to disperse the march with tear gas when it turned violent.

The White House confirmed on Sunday that President Donald Trump will hold bilateral talks with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former al-Qaeda jihadist who toppled Bashar Assad, at this week’s NATO summit in Turkey.

NATO members should stop hoarding air defence missiles in their domestic warehouses and hand them over to Ukraine, President Zelensky said.

Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles claimed her country is meeting the “capability targets” set by NATO — despite President Donald Trump’s repeated warnings the Socialist government in Madrid keeps failing to uphold the bloc’s spending commitments.

Turkish stand-up comedian Deniz Göktaş was detained on Thursday while returning to his country for allegedly insulting Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan and for “publicly insulting religious values” during his latest performance.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel highlighted how the agency had conducted “FOUR different Foreign Transfers” relating to fraud cases within roughly 24 hours, during an internal weekly update to the agency.

A plane hit a radar pole at a Turkish airport on Thursday, frightening its 267 passengers as the aircraft taxied to its gate.

The interim “president” of Venezuela, former Nicolás Maduro henchwoman Delcy Rodríguez, held an in-person meeting with Islamist Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Monday, seeking expanded investments in the impoverished socialist country.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory for himself and Civil Contract party on Monday, winning 51% of the vote.

Turkey on Tuesday expressed alarm over a weekend gig by Kanye West in Istanbul attended by nearly 120,000 fans, saying it included elements that offended its spiritual sensitivities.

Police stormed the offices of Turkey’s main opposition CHP party on Sunday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at party supporters and officials who had been holed up inside for three days.

Bloomberg News reported on Thursday that Turkey sold almost all of its U.S. Treasury holdings in March as part of a strategy to prop up its currency during the Iran crisis.

The Turkish parliament on Wednesday passed the latest national ban on social media for children, joining a trend that began with Australia’s landmark ban in December 2025.

Ukraine has reportedly offered to send four minehunter ships currently docked in the United Kingdom to assist with clearing Iranian mines and securing the Strait of Hormuz for international traffic.

A 19-year-old hunter in Wisconsin got the surprise of his life on Saturday when he encountered an elusive creature stalking him in the woods.

The Syrian Army on Thursday took control of the last U.S. military base on Syrian soil, with assurances that Syria’s new government can handle the job of controlling the Islamic State and other terrorist threats.

Brexit is moot because a post-NATO European Union needs as many members as it can get to fight Russia, Zelensky has said.

Turkish police killed one gunman and injured two others in a firefight outside Israel’s consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday morning with two security officers also left severely wounded.

According to a Reuters report on Thursday, Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar has somehow managed to acquire Chinese and Turkish-made combat drones for his arsenal, even though Libya has been under a weapons embargo since 2011.

The Taliban junta in Afghanistan said on Tuesday that at least 400 people were killed and 250 injured by a Pakistani airstrike that hit a 2,000-bed drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Turkey on Wednesday as part of what his office calls an “annual Ramadan solidarity visit,” where he is joining fasting Muslims while calling for the world to “eradicate the scourge of Islamophobia from every country and community.”

The Turkish government said on Monday that NATO forces intercepted a second Iranian ballistic missile as it entered Turkey’s southern airspace.

President Trump said war is “nearly complete” and warned Iran against trying to escalate, but it seems Tehran hasn’t got the message yet.

Raising a statue to honour one of the most significant victories in the history of Christendom would fuel “hatred” and “anti-Islamic” sentiment, a leftist Vienna councillor has argued.

Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashed near a highway in western Turkey early Wednesday, killing its pilot.

A violent brawl erupted in the Turkish Parliament on Wednesday immediately before the swearing-in of Akın Gürlek as the nation’s new justice minister, the result of opposition lawmakers arguing that Gürlek was an inappropriate choice for the role.

The European Court of Human Rights has formally taken up 20 cases challenging Turkey’s designation of foreign Christians as national security threats, with a legal advocacy group warning that “peaceful worship and participation in church life are not threats to national security.”

The Iranian regime seems to be doing everything possible to derail Friday’s scheduled talks between Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, including last-minute demands for a change of venue from Turkey to Oman.

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on Tuesday launched one of its F-35C fighters to shoot down an unmanned Iranian aircraft that “aggressively approached” with “unclear intent.”