But it was to be the most consequential. NATO, already tracking incidents of suspected cable-cutting, responded. Within three weeks, the alliance had put a coordinated group of warships to sea ...

U.S. President Donald Trump expects Washington's NATO allies to spend more on bombs and bullets. Trump's proposal for members to devote 5 percent of GDP to defense was widely rejected, but the ...

Russia is posing an existential threat to the European Union’s security and the only way to address that is to increase spending on defence, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja ...

Slovakia’s pro-Russian prime minister has raised the prospect of his country leaving the European Union and Nato, arguing that world events could consign them to the “history books”.

British troops are travelling en masse to continental Europe to participate in major NATO-led drills designed to wargame mass mobilisation, amid threats that Russia could attack allied nations.

Steadfast Dart, the first major deployment of NATO's Allied Reaction Force (ARF), is intended to test the ability to deploy under pressure. Second Lieutenant Alex Coleman told PA the move across ...

Thousands of British troops are heading for a massive NATO exercise, Steadfast Dart, aimed to demonstrate the alliance’s ability to deploy rapidly in response to escalating tensions near Russia ...

Previously, Trump has claimed that American support for Ukraine joining NATO had justified an invasion by Russia. “A big part of the problem is, Russia – for many, many years, long before Putin – said ...

STUTTGART, Germany — NATO countries are ready to “turbocharge” defense spending, the alliance’s top official said this week as the security bloc prepares for President Donald Trump’s ...

The operation, called Steadfast Dart, aims to highlight Nato’s ability to mobilise at speed. It comes ahead of the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Friday, with much of the ...

Nick Schifrin discussed how the world is responding to Trump's inauguration with Jens Stoltenberg, the most recent secretary general of NATO who will become the chairman of the Munich Security ...

Sweden sent 550 troops from one of its mechanized infantry battalions to Riga, Latvia, on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade on NATO’s eastern flank. Latvia borders Russia to the ...