U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed Wednesday that President Donald Trump will personally attend the NATO leaders' summit in Ankara next month, hardening signals from Türkiye's foreign minister a day earlier that the president planned to make the trip, APA reports.
The July 7-8 gathering in Ankara comes at a moment of acute strain within the Western alliance, with the Trump administration pressing allies on defense spending while simultaneously confronting a fragile diplomatic effort to contain the fallout from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.