On July 18, 1955, 158 members of parliament from the then-15 member countries of NATO gathered at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris to affirm their conviction that security is best assured when it ...

“How to prepare for a power outage?” reads the Facebook post from the Estonian Rescue Board, the country’s civil defense agency. The picture shows a young woman holding up a power bank, over ...

NATO and BRICS are two major international groups. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) is a military alliance of 32 countries, mostly from North America and Europe. It was formed in 1949 to ...

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NATO fighter planes were scrambled today amid a Russian barrage of drones and missiles on civilian, energy and military sites in Ukraine. Harrowing footage showed residents in Poltava screaming ...

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 ...

In 2018, President Donald Trump privately warned that he might withdraw the US from NATO. He complained that other alliance members weren't contributing their fair share of defense spending ...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told members of the security alliance to boost defense spending or prepare to learn Russian. Speaking at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Monday ...

Sanchez Says Spain Pulling Its Weight in NATO After Trump Criticism of Defence Spending MADRID (Reuters) - Spain is a "reliable partner" in NATO, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday ...

STUTTGART, Germany — NATO has taken command and control from the United States of air defense in Poland, where an Army Patriot missile team also is expected to soon be replaced, according to U.S ...

They're joining a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO's eastern flank, a mission Sweden is calling its most significant operation so far as a member of the Western defence alliance.

NATO’s leadership will have to work adroitly to avoid a crisis. Warning adversaries about what would befall them if they threatened any of the 32 NATO members through military action is a ...