Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan Sign Mecca Defence Agreement

Sometimes countries make a special promise to help protect each other, and that promise is called an alliance.

Recently, three countries — Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan — formed a new alliance called the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement.

They signed it on August 7.

These countries promised that if one of them is attacked, all of them will help defend against the attack.

This is called collective deterrence, which means working together to stop aggression.

The agreement was signed while the United States and Israel were at war with Iran.

Many details of the agreement are still unknown.

People are talking a lot about what this means for safety in the West Asian region.

One famous professor said an alliance is a relationship of security cooperation between two or more countries.