A 5% defense spending target for NATO members is looking increasingly likely as the alliance prepares for its big bang summit ...

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said that he expects alliance members to agree during next month's summit to a defense ...

The US and NATO leadership pushed to increase the alliance’s spending target from 2% of each member country’s GDP to 5%.

Gathered Thursday at the headquarters of the alliance in Brussels, the defense ministers of the 32 allied countries confirmed ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday he was confident that members of the NATO alliance would sign up to ...

NATO allies can’t entirely hedge their security concerns around “reliance on America,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

NATO member countries will agree to a steep new defence-spending target of 5 per cent of annual economic output during the ...

As well as a rise in pure defence spending to 3.5% by 2035, Sir Keir Starmer will also likely be forced to commit a further 1 ...

Some may ask if Mark Rutte's proposal to deter Russian aggression has at least a little to do with appeasing the US president ...

Spain and Italy, however, are seen as major holdouts against the 5% target, after only committing to reach the 2% threshold in 2025. Canada meanwhile spent 1.3% of GDP on defense in 2024 ...