Germany has struck a deal with the United States to buy American-made Tomahawk cruise missiles and station them in Germany, Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced Thursday.

The German leader said the agreement on the long-range missiles, which are used to strike targets deep inside enemy territory, was reached this week on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Turkey's capital, Ankara.

Ukrainian drones hit more Russian oil facilities and set two oil tankers ablaze in the Sea of Azov on Thursday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to grant Kyiv a license to manufacture the Patriot air defense systems to protect its cities.

A top Ukrainian official, meanwhile, cautioned that it could take a year or more for the country to produce Patriot interceptor missiles.

The United States launched new strikes against Iran on Wednesday in a bid to curb Tehran's ability to target shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military said.

U.S. President Donald Trump told a NATO summit that the United States wanted to "remain" with the alliance, a source at inside the closed-door session said, despite his earlier anger at European allies over the Iran war.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Washington would give Kyiv the "the right to make" Patriot air-defense missiles as he met Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky at NATO's summit.

U.S. President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that U.S. forces would strike Iran "hard" in the coming night, after earlier declaring Washington's ceasefire with Iran over at a NATO summit in Ankara.

"We're gonna hit 'em hard tonight," he said before holding talks with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, saying: "They violate the agreement every day."

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to halt all trade with Spain amid a bitter row over Madrid's defense spending and failure to help Washington with the Iran war.

"Spain is a wasted cause. We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore," Trump said as he arrived at a NATO summit in Ankara.

Three people were killed across Ukraine on Wednesday in overnight Russian attacks, including one in Kyiv, where powerful explosions hit for the second night in a row.

Several explosions were heard shortly after midnight, before authorities issued an air raid alert. It was an unusual sequence of events because warnings typically precede strikes, giving civilians time to find shelter.

U.S. forces launched strikes on Iran after three commercial vessels were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military said, sharply escalating a confrontation that has already shaken efforts to end the Middle East war.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he believed both Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky want to get the war "settled", after talking to the two leaders.

"I think they both want to make a deal," Trump told journalists after arriving in Ankara for the NATO summit.