Defence spending has dominated discussions at a NATO summit in Turkiye’s capital Ankara, as Donald Trump again calls for Europe to do more.
Al Jazeera’s Abdullah Elshamy was at the summit and spoke to Belgium’s Foreign Minister.
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that it had shot down a US MQ-9 drone over Khormoj in Bushehr Province following the US attacks launched early Wednesday.
The announcement comes amid escalating military confrontations after US strikes targeted southern Iran and Tehran vowed a decisive response.
The latest development follows ongoing exchanges across the region, with attacks continuing in Iran and renewed Israeli strikes targeting southern Lebanon.
Jeff Bezos AI startup Prometheus is reportedly worth $41B and aims to bring AI to engineering and manufacturing.
Bezos says the company has raised significant funding because the work is “very compute-intensive” and said Prometheus could eventually become an $AMZN AWS customer.
If the reported details of the Iran deal are accurate, then it represents a total strategic failure.
Absolutely stunning how poorly this has been managed.
If the U.S. agrees to release funds and/or lift sanctions in exchange for the regime reopening the Strait of Hormuz, then Washington will have effectively accepted defeat; and there will be no way to spin it.
If President Trump actually agrees to the deal being discussed it would be worse than the JCPOA for the region and the world and will likely define his legacy as that of weakness and failure.