Just nowErdoğan to meet Trump when he deplanesTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will greet Trump as he exits Air Force One, the White House said. Trump will also be met by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, Ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker and Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack, the White House said. A long blue carpet was laid out at the bottom of the plane's steps. Military troops with rifles stood to one side, awaiting the president. 12m ago / 6:55 AM EDTTrump lands in Turkey for NATO summitTrump has landed in Ankara, Turkey, kicking off his NATO summit trip.Later today, he will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Trump will also participate in a NATO leaders' dinner tonight. 22m ago / 6:46 AM EDTTrump says he had a 'good call' with Putin about the warTrump told reporters yesterday that he had a “good call” with Russian President Vladimir Putin the day before and that both Putin and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy want to end the war in Ukraine. “We’re going to be going to NATO, and we’re going to be talking about it, and we, I think we’re going to get it, I think we’re going to get it ended,” he said.46m ago / 6:22 AM EDTTrump to meet with NATO leaders with his commitment to the 77-year-old alliance in doubtTrump is set to arrive in Turkey today for a summit meeting with NATO leaders who are worried that his resentment over their loyalty and military spending will fracture the alliance.Trump will spend only about a day and a half in the company of NATO allies after having made it clear he might have boycotted the summit altogether had the host not been someone he admires, Turkey’s longtime president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.Read the full story here.57m ago / 6:11 AM EDTNATO unveils billions in arms deals to prove its firepower to Trump NATO this morning showcased a series of military projects worth billions of dollars in an attempt to convince Trump that U.S. allies are converting fresh defense spending into real firepower.“It’s money well spent,” an energized NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte told government ministers and defense industry officials on the sidelines of a summit in Turkey. He was speaking at a defense industry forum billed as NATO’s “big reveal,” to the thrum of techno music and a slick video display.NATO as an organization does not own any weapons — these are the property of the 32 member countries — but it does have a fleet of 14 AWACS early warning radar surveillance planes that are about 50 years old, along with some newer surveillance drones.A deal to replace the aging planes was announced this morning.Representatives from 15 nations shook hands and patted shoulders on a vast podium under the NATO logo as they announced a multinational effort to buy air-to-air refueling and transport planes from Airbus. Then Rutte announced a four-country effort to purchase as many as five new Triton surveillance drones to add to NATO’s small fleet.“It is genuinely made in NATO, and creating jobs on both sides of the Atlantic,” he said. However no dollar figures were given and the display included some projects long since agreed.57m ago / 6:11 AM EDTItaly will no longer respond to Trump's provocations, foreign minister says Italy will stop responding to Trump’s provocative remarks, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said in an interview published this morning.Trump “speaks for himself. We have a U.S. President who loves to provoke, especially on social media. We have decided to stop responding to these remarks so as not to fuel disputes among our allies,” Tajani told La Stampa newspaper in Italy.“We are and will remain friends of the United States as our strategic partner and that of Europe,” Tajani added.The comments come as Trump is set to appear alongside Italian leader Giorgia Meloni for the first time since last month, when he claimed that she “begged” him for a photo and she called his claim “completely fabricated.” Trump escalated the feud Sunday on Truth Social, posting a photo of Meloni smiling up at him with text reading “restraining order needed.” Italy’s Il Foglio newspaper headlined its front page today mocking that post, publishing a picture of Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin, under the same caption "restraining order needed."57m ago / 6:11 AM EDTUkraine launches more than 400 drones toward Moscow ahead of NATO summitUkraine launched more than 400 drones at the Moscow region overnight, the Russian capital's mayor said, a day after more than two dozen people were killed by Russian attacks on the Kyiv region.A total of 36 drones were destroyed as they were approaching the Russian capital, which has a population of 13 million, Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Telegram.The two sides have exchanged intensifying attacks in recent weeks, with the Kremlin stepping up assaults on Kyiv as Ukrainian attacks force a mounting crisis at home. At least 28 people were killed in Russian bombardment of the Kyiv region yesterday, local officials said.57m ago / 6:11 AM EDTTrump set to meet with NATO leaders in TurkeyTrump is set to meet with NATO leaders in Turkey today against a backdrop of mounting U.S. pressure on European allies to ramp up spending on defense.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last month said it was “shameful” that NATO countries would not provide access to bases on the continent for the U.S. to launch attacks on Iran. Hegseth announced a six-month review of U.S. forces in Europe, pressuring the countries to take a greater lead in defense spending.