President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced a surprise bid for fast-track membership of the NATO military alliance on Friday and ruled out talks with President Vladimir Putin, striking back at Moscow…

Sweden's Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP) said on Friday it had resumed giving permissions for exports of military equipment to Turkey, reversing a ban in place since 2019. The policy…

Norway will deploy its military to protect its oil and gas installations against possible sabotage after several countries said two Russian pipelines to Europe spewing gas into the Baltic had been…

NATO has brought some reserve troops of its peacekeeping mission (KFOR) for training to Kosovo, one of the mission commanders said on Wednesday, amid unrest among Kosovo Serbs ahead of a deadline for…

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia's first mobilisation since World War Two and warned that Moscow would defend itself with the might of all its vast arsenal if faced with a nuclear…

For almost a century, security turmoil, civil wars, terrorism, and cross-border conflicts have been some of the constant features of the Middle East region. However, in the past decade, the…

President Putin has always been a strong opponent of any NATO expansion, calling it an imperialist threat and claiming that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is nothing more than an…

The recent Madrid NATO summit has been labelled as historical, “with far-reaching decisions to transform NATO”, which apparently will “preserve peace, prevent conflict, and protect our [western]…

Over two days at the end of June, the leaders of NATO member states met at a summit in Madrid amid a palpable sense that the alliance they were there to discuss had suddenly become a lot more…

Thanks to Russian President Vladimir Putin, NATO’s Madrid Summit takes place this week against the backdrop of a resurgent Western alliance. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine compels NATO to return to its…