{
  "id": 264677,
  "title": "Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan sign joint defence deal amid regional turmoil",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/saudi-arabia-turkey-and-pakistan-sign-joint-defence-deal-amid",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-07T11:27:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3363340/saudi-arabia-turkey-and-pakistan-sign-joint-defence-deal-amid-regional-turmoil"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca on Friday, 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 February 28 in a major escalation of…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}