ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — Russia and Ukraine are due to hold their first direct peace talks in three years Friday, gathering in ...

How many more wake up calls do we need?” This is the rhetorical query of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte that captures the ...

Friedrich Merz promised to help defend “every inch” of Nato territory as he joined the inauguration of the first German military brigade to be permanently stationed on foreign soil since the second ...

NATO allies are expected to boost defense spending as high as 3.5 percent of their gross domestic products in response to growing threats.

Satellite imagery has revealed an increase in Russia's military activity near its border with Finland signaling its intention ...

This shows how dangerous the times we live in are, how serious the situation in the Baltic Sea is,” Polish Defence Minister ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz visits Lithuania on Thursday to mark the official formation of Germany's first permanent overseas military unit since World War II, aimed at bolstering NATO's eastern flank ...

Finland shares an 830-mile border with Russia and after decades of neutrality, joined NATO in 2023 in response to the ructions to Europe's security caused by Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Finland's accession to NATO on April 4, 2023, which extended the alliance's border with Russia by over 800 miles, provoked fury in Moscow. In response to the Russian neighbour's accession to the ...

Nato aircraft - including Polish MiG-29s - were scrambled when the vessel refused to cooperate. In response, Russia scrambled a Su-35S fighter jet which is said to have violated Estonian airspace ...

The Prime Minister, Volodymyr Zelensky, Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and Donald Tusk held a phone call with the US ...