Spain is a "reliable partner" in NATO, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday, after U.S.
January 22, 2025
He hails a fantastic woman sweeping all before her in Europe. She praises a strong and shrewd defender of the West.
January 22, 2025
Russia is posing an existential threat to the European Union's security and to only way to address that is to increase spending on defence, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas
January 22, 2025
The leader of Germany's conservative CDU, the party's candidate to run for chancellor, said on Tuesday that the nation should focus on efforts to reach existing
January 21, 2025
U.S. president Donald Trump has apparently confused Spain for a member of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, causing some head-scratching and jitters over possible tariffs in Madrid
January 21, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron warned on Monday that the billions of euros of taxpayer money spent on Europe's military budgets should not be used to buy only American weapons,
January 20, 2025
Germany met NATO's target to spend 2% of its gross domestic product on defence in 2024, the government said on Monday, though well short of incoming U.S.
January 20, 2025
Republican President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to acquire Greenland, bring the war in Ukraine to a close and fundamentally alter the U.S. relationship
November 25, 2024
Lithuania's president says his country has made the decision to raise its spending on defense to between 5% and 6% of overall national economic output starting in 2026
January 17, 2025
A French maritime patrol aircraft was the target of Russian intimidation on Wednesday over the Baltic Sea, France's Defence Minister said on Friday.
January 17, 2025
Russia said on Friday that any placement of British military assets in Ukraine under a new 100-year partnership agreement between Kyiv and London would be of concern to Moscow.
January 17, 2025
Two Norwegian F-35s stationed in Poland were deployed on Wednesday in response to a "massive number of airborne Russian aircraft" that approached Poland's air space, NATO's air
January 16, 2025
Russia on Thursday accused NATO and the West of making "evidence-free" allegations against Moscow over ships purportedly involved in sabotaging undersea cables in an effort to curb
January 16, 2025
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the alliance is launching a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region
January 14, 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow is open for talks with President-elect Donald Trump
January 14, 2025
NATO countries will deploy frigates, patrol aircraft and naval drones in the Baltic Sea to help protect critical infrastructure and
January 14, 2025
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday on a visit intended to send a clear signal of Europe's support ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald
January 14, 2025
Putin has tested the West’s resolve over Ukraine. Will Trump force its collapse?
January 14, 2025The defense ministers of Europe’s five top military spenders say they intend to continue increasing their investments in defense but described President-elect Donald Trump’s challenge for them to raise spending to 5% of their overall economic output as extremely difficult
January 13, 2025
NATO chief Mark Rutte said on Monday the alliance's military capability targets may require members to spend as much as 3.7% of GDP on defence but this figure could be reduced with
January 13, 2025
Fact check: Debunking Trump’s false claims about Canada
January 13, 2025NATO aims to bring forward a decision on new targets for weapons and troop numbers to this summer, a top military official said on Monday, referring to the
January 13, 2025
Germany, Poland, Britain, France and Italy will implement as swiftly as possible new NATO targets for weapons and troop numbers which the alliance is about to agree upon, German
January 13, 2025
Biden offers a first draft of his foreign policy achievements
January 13, 2025
NATO chief Mark Rutte told the European Union on Monday not to create barriers that would prevent companies from NATO countries that are outside the EU from taking part in its
January 13, 2025
Identifying suspect ships and limiting their activities is the most efficient way to protect critical undersea infrastructure, European Commission Vice President
January 13, 2025
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on allies on Sunday to honour all promises to supply Ukraine with weapons, including those to counter Russian air attacks.
January 12, 2025
NATO's newest member Sweden will test new drone swarm technology developed by defence equipment group Saab and the Nordic country's armed forces, Defence Minister Pal Jonson said
January 13, 2025
Sweden's government says the country will contribute up to three warships to a NATO effort to increase the alliance’s presence in the Baltic Sea as it tries to guard against sabotage of underwater infrastructure
January 12, 2025
The German military will establish a new division tasked exclusively with territorial defence, the army said on Saturday, bringing all existing reserve units under direct army
January 11, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump has tossed expansionist rhetoric at U.S. allies and potential adversaries with arguments that the frontiers of American power need to be extended into Canada and the Danish territory of Greenland, and southward to include the Panama Canal
January 11, 2025
Estonian naval ships are taking part in stepped-up patrols in the Baltic Sea by NATO countries after undersea power and communications cables have been damaged in recent months
January 10, 2025
NATO won't heed Donald Trump’s proposal for a massive hike in defence spending but will likely agree to go beyond its current target, according to
January 10, 2025
The White House says President Joe Biden will deliver a capstone address to highlight some of his administration's most significant foreign policy achievements
January 10, 2025
Britain's top diplomat says Europe’s security “is on a knife-edge” and President-elect Donald Trump is right to say NATO member nations must increase military spending
January 09, 2025
NATO takes control from US of air defenses in Poland crucial to supporting Ukraine days before Trump takes office
January 09, 2025
NATO needs a stronger focus on the south and Africa, Italy's prime minister told a news conference on Thursday, saying Russia might boost its presence in eastern Libya after the
January 09, 2025
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one of the European leaders closest to Donald Trump, said on Thursday she believed the U.S. president-elect
January 09, 2025
Danish officials fear Trump is much more serious about acquiring Greenland than in first term
January 08, 2025
Membership in NATO is the only credible long-term security guarantee Ukraine can receive against future Russian aggression, Finland's top diplomat said on Wednesday.
January 08, 2025
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the principle of inviolability of borders applies to every country, however powerful
January 08, 2025
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, tipped to become chancellor in next month's election, said Germany would spend more on defence but would not commit to a NATO defence
January 08, 2025
Republican U.S.
January 07, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he sympathized with the Russian position that Ukraine should not be part of NATO, and he lamented
January 07, 2025
Fact check: Trump makes false claims about January 6, Europe, NATO and Canada
January 07, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said late on Tuesday that no one would give peace to his country as a gift, but he believed the United States would stand alongside Kyiv as it
December 31, 2024
Germany should commit to increasing its defence spending to a sum equivalent to 3% of gross domestic product, the chief executive officer of defence electronics specialist Hensoldt
December 31, 2024
Croatia’s incumbent President Zoran Milanovic has swept most votes in the first round of a presidential election, but will have to face a runoff against a ruling party candidate to secure another five-year term
December 29, 2024
Burial associations in Sweden are looking to acquire enough land for something they hope they’ll never have to do
December 28, 2024
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the military alliance will step up patrols in the Baltic Sea area as Finnish investigators work to establish whether a ship linked to Russia sabotaged undersea cables there this week
December 27, 2024
NATO on Thursday called for a full investigation into the cause of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that killed 38 people.
December 26, 2024
Bonds forged during a wartime Christmas 83 years ago could soon be at risk
December 24, 2024Italy's cabinet on Monday passed a law decree that allows it to continue supplying until the end of 2025 "means, materials and equipment" to Ukraine to support its war effort against
December 23, 2024
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said he considered the sometimes harsh criticism of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to be unjustified,
December 23, 2024
Ukraine's membership of NATO is "achievable", but Kyiv will have to fight to persuade allies to make it happen, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Ukrainian diplomats in a speech on
December 22, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held talks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and other European leaders on Wednesday, aiming to get
December 18, 2024
NATO will need to contain Russia for the next 20 years, the head of Estonian foreign intelligence said.
December 19, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged European countries on Thursday to provide guarantees to protect Ukraine after the war with Russia ends
December 19, 2024
Russia and countries that support it will remain a danger to Europe even after the war in Ukraine has ended, Finnish Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen said on Thursday.
December 19, 2024
People in Finland have been left unsettled by expansionist neighbor Russia and inspired by its recent accession to NATO, are increasingly taking national self-defense into their own hands
December 19, 2024
The Netherlands, in coordination with Finland and Sweden, has intercepted Russian aircraft carrying supersonic missiles over the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, Dutch Defence Minister
December 18, 2024A new NATO command in the German city of Wiesbaden has taken up its work to coordinate Western military aid for Ukraine, the alliance's Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on
December 18, 2024
Germany may increase the size of its armed forces to 230,000, up from the current target of 203,000, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday, as the NATO alliance looks
December 18, 2024
With a war raging at the European Union's eastern border, Russia posing a threat, and U.S.
December 18, 2024
NATO has taken over coordination of Western military aid to Ukraine from the U.S. as planned, a source said on Tuesday, in a move widely seen as aiming to safeguard the support
December 17, 2024
The possible deployment of foreign peacekeeping troops in Ukraine could be raised at a meeting of European leaders in Brussels on Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy
December 17, 2024
Estonia will propose that the leaders of the United Kingdom-led alliance of northern European NATO countries spend no less than 2.5% of GDP on defence in response
December 16, 2024
Russia is disrupting mobile communications and ship-tracking data across the Baltic Sea, endangering vessels and energy supplies to test how
December 16, 2024
Russia's defence minister said on Monday that Moscow must be ready to fight the NATO military alliance in Europe in the next decade, as President
December 16, 2024
U.S.
December 16, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has picked longtime foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell to serve as an envoy for special missions
December 15, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will attend a meeting with the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, NATO and the EU in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss
December 13, 2024
Ukraine's new state agency for nonlethal military procurement is an example of the type of reform that the country hopes will clear the path toward NATO
December 13, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff said in an interview broadcast late on Thursday that Kyiv was not yet ready to start talks with Russia as it lacked the weapons,
December 13, 2024
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to “wipe Ukraine off the map” and could come after other parts of Europe next
December 12, 2024U.S.
December 12, 2024
NATO head Mark Rutte warned the U.S.-led transatlantic alliance on Thursday that it was not ready for the threats it would face from Russia in the coming years and called for a
December 12, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy used his first meeting with Donald Trump since the U.S. election to explain Ukraine's
December 11, 2024
Poland wants more NATO members' navies to take part in policing the Baltic Sea, including those from beyond the region, in view of the potential
December 11, 2024
Germany can cover future increases in military spending without creating a special funding instrument, but must do more to coordinate defence
December 11, 2024
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Moscow was not ready to make concessions when it came to Ukraine and that President Vladimir Putin's own proposals on how to end
December 11, 2024
Slovakia will kick off talks in January for the purchase of three C-390 Millennium aircraft, Brazilian planemaker Embraer said on Tuesday, making it the latest NATO member nation
December 10, 2024
Russia would not invade NATO as it has too many complications with the fighting in Ukraine, Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze said in an interview at the Reuters NEXT
December 10, 2024
EU envoys will discuss on Wednesday the first potential sanctions targeting Russian hybrid threats such as undermining elections, cyber attacks and economic
December 10, 2024
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the Ukraine war would continue until the goals set by President Vladimir Putin were achieved by military action or by negotiation.
December 10, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will raise the issues of Ukraine being invited to join the NATO military alliance as well as security guarantees at a meeting with European
December 10, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made the case on Monday for a diplomatic settlement to Russia's war in Ukraine and raised the idea of foreign troops
December 09, 2024
Ukraine plans to call a meeting of its key European allies in December to coordinate a joint position and make sure Kyiv is in a strong position on the battlefield and in any potential
December 09, 2024The European Union needs common instruments to fund defence spending amid a protracted war in Ukraine and calls from Washington for NATO members to increase such expenditure,
December 09, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee the country’s security as part of a broad effort to end the almost three-year war with Russia
December 09, 2024
Dutch F-35 fighter jets intercepted three Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea on Friday and escorted them at a distance over international waters to the border of the NATO area
December 09, 2024The United States has opened an investigation into whether NATO ally Spain has been denying port entry to cargo vessels reportedly transporting U.S. weapons to Israel
December 06, 2024Calin Georgescu, whose stunning victory in the first round of Romania's presidential election was declared void on Friday, is a
November 25, 2024
Defense officials in NATO member Romania say they have found new fragments of drones similar to those used by the Russian army near its border with war-torn Ukraine, in the third such finding in the past week
September 13, 2023
The top American military officer says North Korea may be able to boost Russia’s supply of artillery munitions for the war in Ukraine
September 16, 2023
A populist former prime minister whose party is favored to win Slovakia’s early parliamentary election plans to reverse the country’s military and political support for neighboring Ukraine if he returns to power
September 18, 2023
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he trusts Russia as much he trusts the West
September 19, 2023
Bulgaria’s government has approved the purchase of U.S.-made Stryker combat vehicles to modernize the country’s land forces and bring them in line with NATO standards
September 22, 2023Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey’s chances of acquiring F-16 fighter jets from the U.S. have been boosted by Sen. Bob Menendez stepping down as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
September 26, 2023Serbia’s president has demanded that a NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo take over for the national law enforcement agency in northern Kosovo
September 26, 2023
Russia has accused Ukraine’s Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week’s missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters in Crimea
September 27, 2023
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the status of the war and needs of troops
September 28, 2023
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's new chairman on Thursday said he would look at Turkey's $20 billion Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jet deal and that
April 26, 2024
Romania is moving air defences closer to its Danube villages across the river from Ukraine where Russian drones have been attacking grain facilities, and is adding
April 26, 2024
NATO is reinforcing its troop presence in Kosovo in response to a weekend shootout that left four people dead
September 29, 2023
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday he was confident that Poland will find ways to address disagreements with Ukraine without impacting military support for
April 26, 2024
Ukraine has hosted an international defense industry conference as part of a government effort to ramp up weapons production within the country to repel Russia’s full-scale invasion
September 30, 2023
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Russia says its air defenses shot down 31 Ukrainian drones in a nighttime attack on border regions
October 04, 2023
The Pentagon says the U.S. military shot down an armed Turkish drone that came within 500 meters of American troops in northeastern Syria
October 05, 2023
Turkey has informed NATO that ratification of Sweden's membership bid will not be completed in time to allow the country's accession
April 26, 2024
Poland signed a $4 billion loan under the United States' Foreign Military Financing program that will help finance the transformation of its armed forces, the Polish defence
December 05, 2024
The NATO-led peacekeeping force has called on both Kosovo and Serbia to return to the negotiating table to resolve their issues to prevent violence like the recent shootout between masked Serb gunmen and Kosovo police that left four people dead and sent tensions soaring in the region
October 06, 2023
Poland's military security depends on its own army and on an alliance with the United States, deputy prime minister and ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Saturday.
April 26, 2024
Finland’s president says damage to an undersea gas pipeline and telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia appears to have been caused by “external activity.”
October 10, 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has joined a meeting of more than 50 defense leaders from around the world to make a personal pitch for military aid in the war against Russia
October 11, 2023
NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that while Israel has the right to defend itself against attacks, he expects the response to Hamas' weekend assault to
April 26, 2024
Germany and nine other countries on Wednesday took the next step in their efforts to jointly purchase air defence systems such as Patriot, IRIS-T and Arrow 3 as NATO allies
July 02, 2024
Finnish police say they have launched a criminal investigation into possible sabotage of an undersea gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia that was shut down over the weekend following a leak
October 11, 2023
Berlin will allow Israel to use two Heron drones the German air force has in use in the country, defence minister Boris Pistorius said on Thursday ahead of a NATO meeting in Brussels
April 26, 2024
Authorities in Romania found a crater on their territory near the border with Ukraine that they say was likely caused by a crashed drone that exploded on impact
October 12, 2023
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is pressing Turkey to quickly ratify Sweden’s membership in the military organization
October 12, 2023
The chief of NATO says the alliance will hold a major nuclear exercise next week
October 12, 2023
Turkey is willing to hold off ratifying Sweden's bid to join NATO this month as it awaits signs of U.S. support for its own
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday that any threats made against Russia were "unacceptable" after Latvia's president said NATO should shut the Baltic Sea to shipping if Moscow were found
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday submitted a bill approving Sweden's NATO membership bid to parliament for ratification, his
April 26, 2024
The office of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he has submitted a protocol for Sweden’s admission into NATO to Turkey’s parliament for ratification
October 23, 2023
World on brink of third nuclear age with few guardrails in place, UK military chief warns
December 05, 2024
The Hungarian parliament has refused a proposal to hold a vote on Sweden’s bid to join NATO, further delaying the Nordic country’s inclusion in the military alliance
October 24, 2023
Turkey's parliamentary speaker sent a bill approving Sweden's NATO membership bid to parliament's foreign affairs commission on Wednesday, the assembly's website showed, in another
April 26, 2024
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the West wants to expand the conflict in the Ukraine to the Asia-Pacific region, Russian state media reported, citing comments made at a
July 02, 2024
The Turkish parliament's foreign affairs committee will discuss ratifying Sweden's NATO membership bid as part of its regular agenda as the issue was not so
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would try to facilitate the parliamentary ratification of Sweden's NATO membership as much as possible, but added that Stockhom had still
April 26, 2024
Slovakia's new Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has pledged to halt the country's military aid for neighbouring Ukraine, said on Monday he had no intention of preventing private defence
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Russia on Tuesday formally withdrew from a landmark security treaty which limited key categories of conventional armed forces, blaming the
April 26, 2024
NATO allies on Tuesday condemned a decision by Russia to withdraw from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, which was a key post-Cold War treaty, adding that, as a
April 26, 2024
NATO allies have frozen their participation in a key Cold War-era security treaty in response to Russia’s withdrawal from the pact
November 07, 2023
There was no way for the U.S. to stay in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, a key post-Cold War agreement, after Russia pulled out, White house national security
April 26, 2024
The Bulgarian parliament on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion purchase of Stryker fighting vehicles from the United States to modernise the country's army and bring it in line with
April 26, 2024
Latvia’s president says Russia is planning for a long war in Ukraine and he warns that countries need to keep supplying weapons to Kyiv to discourage Moscow from threatening other nations in the future
November 12, 2023
NATO will replace its ageing fleet of AWACS surveillance planes, in service since the Cold War in the 1980s, with a militarised version of the Boeing 737 commercial jet, the
April 26, 2024
Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is signaling that she's willing to put her name forward for NATO’s top job when it falls vacant next year
November 15, 2023
A Turkish parliament commission is set to debate and likely approve Sweden's NATO membership bid on Thursday, in the latest step toward expanding the Western
April 26, 2024
Finland’s government says it will close four crossing points on its long border with Russia to stop the flow of migrants that it accuses Moscow of ushering to the border in recent months
November 16, 2023
The Turkish parliament's foreign affairs commission delayed a vote on Sweden's NATO membership bid on Thursday, in a rare move putting off enlarging the
April 26, 2024
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has urged NATO to further boost its military forces in Kosovo and secure the country’s borders with Serbia
November 22, 2023
Finnish border guards and soldiers have begun erecting barriers including concrete obstacles topped with barbed-wire at some crossing points on the Nordic country’s lengthy border with Russia
November 22, 2023
The Kremlin said on Friday that NATO's desire to have a military analogue of the Schengen Zone in Europe to allow the alliance's armed forces to move around freely to counter Russia
April 26, 2024
British troops are patrolling the Kosovo-Serbia border as part of a NATO peacekeeping presence being bolstered amid concern that the former wartime foes
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Russia threatened retaliation against Finland after its Nordic neighbor joined NATO earlier this year
November 25, 2023
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Hungary’s capital next month
November 28, 2023
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told NATO counterparts on Tuesday he was working hard on Sweden's NATO ratification which is currently being debated by the Turkish parliament
April 26, 2024
Latvia's foreign minister is staking a claim to the top job at NATO
November 28, 2023
Turkey has said it expects to ratify Sweden's long-delayed accession to NATO within weeks, Sweden's foreign minister told journalists on Wednesday.
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's foreign minister insists that NATO allies are showing no sign of war fatigue and remain committed to helping his country defend itself against Russia
November 29, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to increase the number of troops by nearly 170,000 to a total of 1.32 million
December 01, 2023
The U.S. envoy to Budapest sharply criticised the Hungarian government on Tuesday for "disregarding" the interests of its NATO allies and strengthening ties with Russia at a time
April 26, 2024
On the brink of joining NATO, Sweden has signed a defense cooperation agreement with Washington that will allow the United States access to all of the military bases across the Scandinavian country, saying the deal would bolster regional security
December 06, 2023
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Canada and the United States were insisting that Ankara ratify Sweden's NATO membership bid before Canada resumes the export of drone cameras
April 26, 2024
Poland’s newly elected prime minister, Donald Tusk, has vowed that his government will demand that the West keep helping neighboring Ukraine
December 12, 2023
Finland’s government says it will reopen two out of eight border crossing points with Russia later this week following a sudden influx of migrants in November
December 12, 2023
Finland will on Monday Dec. 18 sign a defence cooperation agreement with the United States, the Finnish government said on Thursday, to grant the
July 02, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke about Sweden's application to join the NATO alliance, White House spokesperson John Kirby said on Thursday.
April 26, 2024
Dozens of migrants have crossed into Finland hours before the reclosure of two southern crossing points on the border with Russia as the Nordic country experiences an influx of asylum-seekers
December 15, 2023
Vladimir Putin said U.S.
April 26, 2024
Republican former President Donald Trump is planning to fundamentally alter America's relationship with Europe should he win a second term in office.
April 26, 2024
Donald Trump in a second term would likely install loyalists in key positions in the Pentagon, State Department and
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Tuesday as saying that positive developments on the U.S. sale of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara, and on Canada's arms embargo, would help
April 26, 2024
Turkish parliament's foreign affairs commission will convene on Dec. 26, Tuesday to resume talks on Sweden's NATO membership bid, the parliament website showed on Friday.
April 26, 2024
The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee has given its consent to Sweden’s bid to join NATO
December 26, 2023
Sweden edged closer toward joining NATO after the Turkish Parliament’s foreign affairs committee greenlighted a protocol for the Nordic country’s membership in the military alliance
December 26, 2023
The Turkish parliament's foreign affairs commission approved Sweden's NATO membership bid on Tuesday in a key step towards enlarging the Western bloc after 19
April 26, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken in a call on Wednesday that Turkey expected the United States to act in line with their NATO alliance
April 26, 2024
NATO says it will help buy up to 1,000 Patriot missiles so allies can better protect their territory as Russia ramps up its air assault on Ukraine
January 03, 2024
NATO allies in a meeting with Ukraine have made it clear they will continue to provide the country with major military, economic, and humanitarian aid in the face of Russia's
April 26, 2024
Finnish presidential frontrunner Alexander Stubb said on Thursday NATO should become "more European" and that his country would remain an important partner for
July 02, 2024
Strikes by the U.S. and British militaries against Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen were "defensive, and designed to preserve freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most vital
April 26, 2024
Circling around and around high in the skies of eastern Europe, secretive surveillance flights for NATO closely watch Russian activity along the military alliance's eastern flank
January 16, 2024
As Donald Trump strengthens his lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, some U.S. allies are worried about an American turn toward
April 26, 2024
NATO will launch next week its biggest war games in decades with around 90,000 personnel set to take part in monthslong military exercises
January 18, 2024
The scale of NATO's Steadfast Defender 2024 exercises mark an "irrevocable return" of the alliance to Cold War schemes, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told the state
January 21, 2024
NATO has signed a 1.1 billion euro contract for 155mm artillery ammunition, the alliance said on Tuesday, with part of the shells to be supplied to Ukraine after complaints a
January 23, 2024
Turkey's parliament is widely expected to approve Sweden's NATO membership bid on Tuesday, clearing the biggest remaining hurdle to
January 23, 2024
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sent a letter to his Swedish counterpart, Ulf Kristersson, inviting him to Budapest to discuss Sweden’s accession into the NATO military alliance
January 23, 2024
Turkish legislators have endorsed Sweden’s membership in NATO, lifting a major hurdle on the previously nonaligned country’s entry into the military alliance
January 23, 2024
Turkey's parliament approved Sweden's NATO membership bid on Tuesday following more than four hours of debate, clearing a last major hurdle to expanding the Western military
January 23, 2024
The U.S. Navy dock landing ship Gunston Hall left port on Wednesday to mark the first movement for the largest NATO exercise since the Cold War, officials said.
April 26, 2024
The United States on Wednesday welcomed the Turkish parliament's ratification of Sweden's NATO membership bid this week and urged Ankara to formally finalize
January 24, 2024After Turkey ratified Sweden’s bid to join NATO on Monday, Hungary became the last member of the military alliance not to have issued its approval
January 24, 2024
The U.S. ambassador to Turkey said he anticipates that President Tayyip Erdogan will give a final sign-off on Sweden's NATO membership within days, triggering
April 26, 2024
Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has offered to meet his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban in Brussels next week to discuss the Swedish NATO application and other
January 25, 2024
Swedish media say Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has agreed to meet with his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán, who invited Kristersson to Budapest to discuss Sweden’s accession into NATO
January 25, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday signed off on the parliament's ratification of Sweden's NATO membership bid, the presidency's official gazette showed, marking the final
July 02, 2024
Turkey has published a measure approving Sweden’s membership in NATO in its official gazette
January 25, 2024
Finns will vote Sunday to elect a new president as the Nordic nation is a NATO member and its eastern border with Russia is closed
January 26, 2024
Turkey is expected to send the final instrument of ratification for Sweden's NATO membership to Washington within days, now that President Tayyip Erdogan signed it off, in a move
July 02, 2024
Canada and Turkey have reached a deal to restart Canadian exports of drone parts in exchange for more transparency on where they are used, and it would take
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration has approved the sale of F-16 fighters jets to Turkey following the Turkish government's ratification this week of Sweden's membership in NATO
January 27, 2024
Voters in Finland are electing a new president at an unprecedented time
January 28, 2024
As war drags on, more Ukrainians say that they are prepared to negotiate – but the majority still reject any deal with Russia.
January 29, 2024
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has returned to work at the Pentagon after nearly a month’s absence because of prostate cancer and has been meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
January 29, 2024
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance has no plans to send combat troops into Ukraine, as some Western countries are thought to be considering putting boots on the ground
February 27, 2024
John Bolton excoriated former President Donald Trump as an utterly self-interested man who would punish personal enemies and appease
April 26, 2024
The leaders of five European Union countries are urging their allies to ramp up military support for Ukraine
January 31, 2024
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday played down fears that a re-election of former U.S.
April 26, 2024
Senate negotiators are struggling to finalize a bipartisan deal that would pair policy changes at the U.S. southern border with wartime aid for Kyiv as they run into strong resistance from House Republicans and Donald Trump
January 31, 2024
European Union leaders are making a fresh attempt to unblock a $54 billion financial aid package for Ukraine's war-ravaged economy
February 01, 2024
Turkey is still interested in buying 40 Eurofighter Typhoon jets, a Turkish defence ministry official said on Thursday after the United States advanced the $23 billion sale of its F
April 26, 2024
The surprise front-runner in Romania’s presidential election insisted to The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that he is not pro-Russian — hours before Romania declassified intelligence alleging Moscow ran an online campaign to promote him to voters
December 04, 2024
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers are urging Hungary to immediately ratify Sweden’s application to join NATO
February 02, 2024
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s role as Europe’s perennial spoiler has frequently brought the European Union to a breaking point as he has blocked crucial decisions to leverage concessions and forced EU leaders to find workarounds
February 03, 2024
Sweden's NATO bid could be ratified when Hungary's parliament reconvenes for a normal session, the ruling Fidesz party's parliamentary group said on Monday,
April 26, 2024
The Turkish foreign minister says Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Turkey soon
February 05, 2024Lawmakers from the party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán have boycotted an emergency session of parliament where a vote was scheduled to place Sweden’s bid to join NATO on the legislative agenda
February 05, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will highlight Europe's efforts to help Ukraine repel a Russian invasion during his trip to Washington this week,
April 26, 2024
The White House is focused on getting a Ukraine aid package through the U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan says he and his NATO counterparts have cautioned Hungary against further delaying Sweden’s membership in the military alliance
February 07, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his talks with U.S.
April 26, 2024
Finland's government says that it will extend the closure of the country's border with Russia until April 14
February 08, 2024
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is right to challenge NATO members to boost defence spending, Britain's foreign minister told Reuters on Wednesday.
December 04, 2024
Senior Nordic and Baltic lawmakers visiting Washington on Thursday expressed alarm at what they called a lack of urgency and a clear strategy by the United
April 26, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will lend European support for U.S.
July 02, 2024
The White House on Saturday rejected comments made by former U.S.
April 26, 2024
As chances rise of a Joe Biden-Donald Trump rematch in the U.S. presidential election race, America’s allies are bracing for a bumpy ride
February 11, 2024
Finnish voters are choosing between two experienced voters to be their next president
February 11, 2024
Two European officials criticized Donald Trump on Sunday after comments the former U.S. president made about not protecting NATO allies who aren't paying enough from a potential
July 02, 2024
NATO's leader is warning that Donald Trump was putting the safety of U.S. troops and their allies at risk
February 11, 2024
Some of former President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans on Sunday lashed out at him for saying he would not want to protect NATO members from a future attack
April 26, 2024
NATO cannot be an 'a la carte' military alliance dependent on the whims of the U.S. president, the European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday, as he
April 26, 2024
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk is traveling to Paris and Berlin in a diplomatic effort to rebuild key alliances
February 12, 2024
Recent comments made by U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump on NATO should be a wake-up call for NATO members who haven't invested much in defense, Estonia's Prime Minister
April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
The transatlantic partnership between the U.S. and European allies will continue no matter who is in the White House, Germany's finance minister said on Monday amid a furore over
July 02, 2024
Donald Trump says he once warned that he would allow Russia to do whatever it wants to NATO member nations that are “delinquent” in devoting 2% of their gross domestic product to defense
February 12, 2024
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has canceled his trip to Brussels to meet with NATO ministers and work on Ukraine military aid as he remains hospitalized while dealing with complications from prostate cancer
February 12, 2024
Donald Trump’s claim that he once told a NATO ally that he “would encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to “delinquent” members of the group sent shockwaves through Europe over the weekend
February 12, 2024
A leading national security adviser to Donald Trump told Reuters on Tuesday that he would push for changes to NATO if the former president returns to power that
April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden says Donald Trump’s comments calling into question the U_S_ commitment to defend its NATO allies from attack were “dangerous” and “un-American.”
February 13, 2024
Ukraine Defence Minister Rustem Umerov and newly appointed armed forces commander Oleksandr Syrskyi discussed Kyiv's military plans for 2024 with the supreme commander of the NATO Armed
April 26, 2024
The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to be released from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday
February 13, 2024
Sweden's foreign minister said on Wednesday that he expects that Hungary will soon approve the Swedish NATO membership application.
April 26, 2024
Eighteen out of 31 NATO countries will hit the target of 2% in defence spending of their gross domestic product in 2024, NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on
April 26, 2024
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says European allies and Canada have ramped up defense spending to record levels
February 14, 2024
NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg urged the U.S.
April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
Poland’s National Security Bureau says the country's president has met the CEO of U.S. manufacturer Lockheed Martin about strengthening security in the region and continued U.S. investment in Poland’s military weapons and equipment
February 14, 2024Ukraine needs to get younger people into the military to succeed in the war being waged against it by Russia, U.S.
December 04, 2024
President Vladimir Putin says that Russia would prefer to see President Joe Biden win a second term, describing him as more experienced than Donald Trump
February 14, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Albania on Thursday to reaffirm relations with a key partner in the Balkans and an ally in supporting Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s full-scale invasion
February 15, 2024
The Munich Security Conference has been long regarded as a celebration of the U.S.-led post-World War II international order
February 15, 2024
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April 26, 2024
NATO's chief is warning member countries not to allow a wedge to be driven between the United States and Europe
February 15, 2024
Donald Trump has threatened to not defend some NATO countries if Russia attacks them. But the US also benefits from the power that NATO gives it, as well as the stability it helped create in Europe.
February 15, 2024
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is leading a fresh push for European countries to ramp up defense spending
December 04, 2024
Leading politicians, military officers and diplomats from around the world gather in Munich on Friday for a security conference that will be
July 02, 2024
U.S. peacekeeping troops in Kosovo are well equipped and stand ready to prevent violence in the country's ethnically divided north, often the scene of
April 26, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has warned about the dangers of growing authoritarianism and isolationism
February 16, 2024
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April 26, 2024
Donald Trump's stark comments on NATO show that Europeans should take more responsibility for their security, but they will still need the transatlantic military
April 26, 2024
Talk of a potential European nuclear deterrent that would not involve the United States is "not helpful", NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Saturday.
April 26, 2024
Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the frontrunner to be the next secretary-general of NATO, said on Saturday that Europe should stop
July 02, 2024
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sought to contain the political fallout of a presidential pardon scandal during an annual state of the nation address
February 17, 2024
Norway is "ready to stand up and be counted" on defence spending ahead of a NATO Washington summit in July, the Nordic country’s prime minister told Reuters on
April 26, 2024
Two U.S. senators will submit a bipartisan resolution to Congress condemning democratic backsliding in Hungary and urging its nationalist government to lift its block on Sweden’s accession into the NATO military alliance
February 18, 2024
Even as they insist they are not dancing to Donald Trump's tune on NATO, European leaders are singing from a song sheet designed to appeal to the former U.S.
April 26, 2024
Republicans have been softening their stance on Russia ever since Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election following Russian hacking of his Democratic opponents
February 19, 2024
A vote in Hungary’s parliament on ratifying Sweden’s bid to join NATO could come as early as Monday
February 20, 2024
A German defence ministry spokesperson could not confirm media reports on Wednesday about an incident between a German army helicopter and a Russian ship in the Baltic Sea.
December 04, 2024Romanians vote in a presidential election runoff on Sunday that could see Calin Georgescu, a far-right critic of NATO, defeat pro-European centrist Elena Lasconi,
December 04, 2024
There is significant momentum in relations between the United States and Turkey upon which the two NATO allies can capitalise, U.S.
April 26, 2024
Polish authorities are voicing grave concerns after slogans praising Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war against Ukraine appeared at Polish farmers’ protests
February 21, 2024
As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, the conflict will be determined not just on the battlefield but also in Western capitals and other places far from the
April 26, 2024
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the border crossings with Ukraine are being added to a list of critical infrastructure to ensure that all military and humanitarian aid can reach Ukraine without any delays
February 22, 2024
Hungary’s nationalist government has delayed holding a vote on Sweden’s membership for more than 18 months, creating tension with Stockholm and drawing mounting pressure from its allies to finally move forward on ratification
February 22, 2024
The prime ministers of Hungary and Sweden have concluded a defense industry agreement that will expand Budapest’s fleet of Swedish-built fighter jets
February 23, 2024
Western leaders have been voicing their solidarity with Ukraine on the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion. Here are some of the latest comments: U.S.
April 26, 2024
Many voters in South Carolina’s Republican primary want a United States that is less willing to openly challenge Russia – a sign of how the Cold War-era GOP establishment has given way to former President Donald Trump’s “America First” ethos
February 24, 2024
By Krisztina Than and Niklas Pollard BUDAPEST/STOCKHOLM, Reuters - Hungary is expected to ratify Sweden's NATO accession on Monday, clearing the last hurdle before the historic step by the Nordic
July 02, 2024
Hungary's parliament is set to ratify Sweden’s bid to join NATO, likely bringing an end to more than 18 months of delays that have frustrated the alliance as it seeks to expand in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine
February 26, 2024
NATO boss Mark Rutte sharply criticised arms companies inside the U.S.-led alliance on Wednesday, saying they were producing too little, charging
December 04, 2024
Sweden's final hurdle to joining NATO was swept away on Monday after hold-out Hungary's ratification, ending 200 years during which Stockholm's military self-
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin warned on Tuesday that conflict between Russia and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance would become inevitable if European members of NATO sent troops to fight in
July 02, 2024
A senior Ukrainian official on Tuesday welcomed talk of European nations sending troops to Ukraine, but the Kremlin said a conflict between Russia and NATO would become inevitable if
April 26, 2024
Germany, Britain and other European countries said on Tuesday they had no plans to send ground troops to Ukraine, after France hinted
April 26, 2024
A Kosovo court has sentenced two ethnic Serbs to six-month jail terms for attacking NATO-led peacekeepers a year ago
February 27, 2024The prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia says the four Central European countries are deeply divided over Russia's war against Ukraine and how to resolve the conflict
February 27, 2024
Ukraine’s president will co-host a summit with Albania’s government on Wednesday that’s meant to encourage further support for Kyiv by southeastern European countries as signs of fatigue grow two years after Russia’s invasion
February 28, 2024
Italy's military budget is set to shrink again this year, taking the country further away from a NATO target of spending at least 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence by 2028
February 28, 2024Russia said on Wednesday it would adopt unspecified military-technical and other counter measures to protect itself against Sweden joining NATO, a move it cast as aggressive and as
February 28, 2024President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tried to drum up Balkan support for his vision of peace in Ukraine and promoted the idea of joint arms production at a two-day summit
April 26, 2024
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