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U.S. President Donald Trump landed in Ankara on Tuesday to attend a high-stakes two-day NATO summit which could be overshadowed by differences over defence spending and the war in Iran. Trump descended from Air Force One, a plane that had been gifted to him by Qatar, after it touched down …

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has defended his country’s defence budget against renewed criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump as NATO leaders are due to gather in Ankara for a two-day summit on Tuesday. “We’re looking at the numbers, and they are pointing up,” Wadephul told Germany’s Deutschlandfunk radio. Responding …

NATO foreign ministers on Thursday gathered in the Turkish city of Antalya to discuss ramping up defence expenditure with the U.S., and calling for the current target to be doubled. Washington has repeatedly urged allies to agree to spend five per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence at …

THE EU states are concerned that the Trump administration could stop supporting US-made weapons systems used by its NATO allies in Europe, reports said The US has been the sole weapons provider to the EU, accounting for two-thirds of the defence equipment imported by the EU member states in recent …

U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement on Thursday aimed at bolstering Ukraine’s defence against Russian invaders and getting Ukraine closer to NATO membership. The deal, signed on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Italy, aims to commit future U.S. administrations …

The current propaganda of the United States and the European countries around their interests is a repeat of past media campaigns against the geopolitical opponents of the West, an intelligence report by Russian military authorities has said. The report alleged that methods of falsifying facts and replicating fakes were used …

After Russia threatened Lithuania on Tuesday, June 21, the United States has declared that it will stand firmly behind Lithuania with its NATO commitments to defend it. Lithuania, is one of the most outspoken nations that have been opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Lithuania  who is a former Soviet republic …

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed Turkey’s opposition to NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, shooting down a proposal by the Nordic countries to send delegations to Ankara to address the matter. “We will not say ‘yes’ to those [countries] who apply sanctions to Turkey to join security organisation NATO,” …

Finland’s President and Government announced Sunday that the Nordic country intends apply for membership in NATO, paving the way for the 30-member Western military alliance to expand amid Russia’s war in Ukraine. President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin made the announcement at a joint news conference at the …

Joe Biden said the US and its allies were prepared to respond “in kind” if Russia uses chemical weapons during its invasion of Ukraine as he urged the west to sustain pressure on Vladimir Putin and remain unified in its response to the war. “It would trigger a response in …