Oleg Petrasiuk/Reuters While Ukraine’s acceptance into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) appears unattainable, armed neutrality may be the country’s next best option to protect ...

Finland and Sweden are NATO's two newest members, having joined the organization in 2023 and 2024, respectively. “I think it is very important for the Swedish army to liaise with one of our most ...

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”.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 and its eight Baltic Sea allies are stepping up their deterrence efforts in the wake of a series of incidents that have seen successive ruptures of key undersea conduits. On Tuesday, the ...

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Tensions between NATO and Russia remain high following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Although the conflict has mainly focused on Ukraine, Russian officials and state media have ...