Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan Sign Joint Defense Agreement

08:00 AM EDT, 08/07/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Makkah joint defense agreement, according to a Friday release by the Pakistani government. The agreement, signed at the Makkah Al-Mukarramah Summit for Joint Defense in Saudi Arabia, is to bolster collective deterrence against acts of aggression and stipulates that an armed attack on any of the countries will be treated as an attack on all three.