
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that NATO-member Turkey would take delivery of Russia’s S-400 missile defense system in July — a deal that has created tensions with the United States. “The issue of S-400 is an issue directly related to our sovereignty and we will not backtrack from that,” ...

Iran said Tuesday US sanctions on its leaders represent the “permanent closure” of diplomacy with Washington, after President Donald Trump imposed tightened restrictions on the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei and Foreign Minister Mohamamd Javad Zarif. “Imposing fruitless sanctions against Iran’s supreme leader ...