Government could suffer high-profile defeat over five-year deadline proposed in overseas operations bill Peers behind a cross-party amendment to halt plans to restrict prosecutions of torture and war crimes by British soldiers serving...
President calls for his country to be put on pathway to membership of western military alliance Ukraine’s president has called on Nato and key member states to hasten his country’s membership of the western military alliance in response...
As the deadline for US withdrawal looms, the Taliban are seizing their chance and the death toll rises daily Ghazaal Habibyar’s trembling hand hovered over her mobile phone, unable to type the numbers. “I was afraid to hear bad news,”...
Alexei Navalny’s investigation into £1bn seaside mansion has sparked protests across Russia Russia’s FSB security agency has confirmed it enforced a no-fly zone over the £1bn seaside palace that Vladimir Putin has assured the public he...
Treaty signatories include Africa’s most populous country and Europe’s least populated, but Russia and Nato on the sidelines An international treaty banning all nuclear weapons that has been signed by 51 countries and that campaigners...
Leaders say Europe again has a friend in the White House as Chinese outlets hail end to Trump’s ‘toxic rhetoric’ Biden inauguration – live updates World leaders have voiced relief at Joe Biden’s inauguration, with European officials...
8 December 1973: Nobody any longer bothers to deny that Atlantic relations have gone sour. But the Europeans feel that they have been more sinned against than sinning Dr Kissinger ’s first appearance on the NATO stage is awaited by the...
French president says US election chance to pursue sovereignty amid rising populism European leaders must not let up on efforts to construct an autonomous bloc that is capable of resisting the duopoly of China and the US, Emmanuel Macron...
In an interview with al-Jazeera, the French president also tried to calm tensions with the Muslims world over caricatures of the prophet Muhammad The French president Emmanuel Macron has accused Turkey of adopting a “bellicose” stance...
Military run down after cold war but Russian activity in Baltic Sea forces hasty rearmament Sweden will increase military spending by about 40% in the next five years and double the number of people conscripted into its armed forces as...
Rescue boats had begun ‘gently moving’ pod of three whales towards the mouth of the River Clyde Rescuers shepherded a pod of three northern bottlenose whales from a Scottish loch on Thursday before a major international military...
The EU is in the country’s DNA. But global threats mean a strong transatlantic western alliance has never been more vital Happy birthday, Germany: 30 years old on 3 October, the anniversary of German unification in 1990. But hang on a...
Deepening dispute between Nato allies has dragged in neighbours and is in danger of spiralling out of control An increasingly fractious standoff over access to gas reserves has transformed a dispute between Turkey and Greece that was...
Moscow pressed over details of chemical weapons programme as Nato mulls next steps Russia is under pressure to reveal details of its novichok chemical weapons programme after Nato called for an impartial international investigation into...
Nato has condemned the poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with the nerve agent novichok as a 'disrespect for human life' and 'breach of international norms'. Russia had serious questions to answer about the...
Paul Hansen one of 50 reporters, including BBC Moscow’s Steve Rosenberg, detained by police A Swedish photojournalist has been deported from Belarus, amid a crackdown on local and foreign media and ahead of further mass protests planned...
Tory chair of defence committee responds to leaks Challenger 2 to be scrapped Tobias Ellwood, the chair of the defence select committee, has accused Downing Street of “an absence of an over arching defence strategy” after leaks that the...
President has vowed to ‘solve’ demonstrations and told army to prepare for foreign invasion Belarusians are preparing for a second Sunday of massed rallies against Alexander Lukashenko, after the country’s authoritarian president told...
There could be a renewed focus on international cooperation – but Biden would not be great news for Boris Johnson’s Britain European leaders, desperate for an end to the Trump presidency, are being warned that four years of Joe Biden may...
Politicians say withdrawal of up to 12,000 soldiers will hurt local economy and makes little strategic sense The US government’s decision to withdraw thousands of troops from bases across southern and western Germany will have a huge...
[Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan] is working so hard on the military. We have a — we were taken advantage of by so many countries on our military .
NATO: [O]n Wednesday (3 October 2018), Defence Ministers from thirteen NATO Allies signed a declaration of intent to cooperate on the introduction of Maritime Unmanned Systems.
The United States is expected to announce in the coming days that it will use offensive and defensive cyber capabilities on behalf of NATO if asked , a senior Pentagon official said,
Mongolia recently marked the successful achievement of goals set under its Defence Education Enhancement Programme (DEEP) with NATO. Through DEEP, Mongolia has completed an ambitious multi-year plan for the modernisation of its...
The Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) will conduct the consequence management field exercise “BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA 2017” from 25th to 29th September 2017, in and around the city of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
Nancy Dupree, an American historian, archaeologist and educator, has died in Kabul. She was 90. Nancy Dupree dedicated her life to Afghanistan and became known as "the Grandmother of Afghanistan".
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg participated as an observer in a cyber exercise at the informal meeting of EU Defence Ministers in Tallinn on Thursday (7 September 2017). Mr. Stoltenberg highlighted that NATO-EU cooperation is...
General Petr Pavel, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee and General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and First Deputy Minister of Defence, will meet today, 7 September 2017,...
Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, General Petr Pavel visited Baku, Azerbaijan on 7 September 17. He met with the Chief of Defence of the Azerbaijan Armed Forces and First Deputy Defence Minister, General Najmeddin Sadikov.
General Petr Pavel, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee and General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and First Deputy Minister of Defence met today, 7 September 2017, in Baku,...
On 3 September, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) conducted another nuclear test, demonstrating again its reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons. This represents a flagrant violation of multiple UN Security Council...
Together with Estonian Prime Minister Jüri Ratas, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited NATO’s UK-led battlegroup in Tapa on Wednesday (6 September 2017). Addressing troops, the Secretary General called the multinational force...
For the next four months, the United States and Belgium will conduct NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission, safeguarding the airspace over the region. At a ceremony on Tuesday (5 September 2017), Belgium took over the supporting role from...
NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller delivered remarks on non-proliferation at the Strategic Forum in Bled, Slovenia on Tuesday (5 September 2017). On a panel with senior officials, including from the European Union, the...
On 5 September, Ambassador Alejandro Alvargonzalez, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy and Admiral Michelle Howard, Commander at Allied Joint Force Command inaugurated the NATO Strategic Direction...
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will travel to Tallin and Tapa in Estonia on Wednesday and Thursday 6 and 7 September 2017. During his visit, he will have bilateral meetings with the Estonian President H.E. Ms. Kersti Kaljulaid,...
I strongly condemn that North Korea has conducted a sixth nuclear test today. This is yet another flagrant violation of multiple UN Security Council Resolutions, including UNSCR 2321 adopted in November 2016.
The press conference with the Commander of the NATO-led Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan - planned for the 4th of September 2017 at NATO Headquarters, at 15:15 - has been postponed due to scheduling issues. A new date will be...
On Monday, 4 and Tuesday 5 September 2017, the NATO Deputy Secretary General, The Honourable Ms. Rose Gottemoeller will travel to Bled in Slovenia to participate in a panel discussion entitled “Global Nuclear Governance: Quo vadis?”...
Lieutenant General Steven M. Shepro, Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (DCMC) visited Finland on 28-29 August 2017. During his visit, Lieutenant General Steven M. Shepro attended the 4th Helsinki Summer Session and visited...
Canadian CF-188 fighters are ready to begin NATO air policing patrols over Romania. At the Mihail Kogalniceanu Airbase on Thursday (31 August 2017), the detachment was certified to operate alongside the MiG-21s of their Romanian hosts....