Turkey has offered to guard and run Kabul‘s airport after the United States and other NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan, but U.S. officials say Ankara is imposing conditions which need to be resolved as their leaders prepare to meet next week. Turkish officials say Ankara made the proposal at a NATO meeting in May when … Read more
Russia will start supplying its S-400 surface-to-air missile systems to India in the fourth quarter, the Interfax news agency quoted Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport as saying on Thursday. India signed a $5 billion deal for S-400 missiles in 2018, drawing warnings from the United States that such an acquisition would trigger sanctions as part … Read more
Top US diplomat Antony Blinken on Wednesday pressed Turkey‘s foreign minister over a Russian air defence system and Ankara’s withdrawal from a treaty on violence against women. “Secretary Blinken urged Turkey not to retain the Russian S-400 air defence system,” the State Department said, after talks on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in Brussels. … Read more