WorldSaudi, Turkey and Pakistan sign pact amid US-Iran war fallout

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a mutual defence pact on Friday. In a joint statement, the allies said aggression against any one of the three countries would be treated as an attack on all three. The statement did not clarify whether the agreement commits them to any specific military response in one another’s defence. Henry Barkey, an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, offered further insights.