NATOs

BRUSSELS — After the collapse of the Soviet Union, some asked whether NATO had any real reason to exist. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine gave new urgency to NATO as a defensive alliance aimed at deterring Moscow.Now, at its annual summit…

While Facebook said it’s taking “extensive steps to fight the spread of misinformation”, former Eastern Bloc countries, and even US lawmakers say the company isn’t doing enough. …

ISTANBUL: When Finland and Sweden signalled they were thinking of making the historic decision joining NATO, the alliance expected a tough response from Moscow, not from one of its own. Yet at a gathering of NATO foreign ministers with…

LONDON: Russia said on Monday (May 16) that the West should have no illusions that Moscow will simply put up with the Nordic expansion of the US-led NATO military alliance to include Sweden and Finland, casting the move as a mistake that…

The most talked-about weapons, next-generation light anti-tank weapons (NLAWs), were developed by the Swedish company Saab in a joint venture between the Swedish and British defence ministries. Although overall production figures are not…

NATO cannot allow a security vacuum to develop in the Arctic, where the alliance sees “growing strategic competition" from Russia and China, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday. “We cannot afford a security vacuum in the…

Now, as China faces pressure from the West to condemn the Russian invasion, it's ramping up similar rhetoric to talk about America's footprint in Asia. In recent days, senior Chinese Foreign Ministry officials and influential Communist…

Diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine are stepping up, with Ukrainian and Russian negotiators set to talk again after both sides cited progress over the weekend, while high-level U.S. officials are talking to European and…

LVIV, Ukraine — Russia launched a barrage of airstrikes on Sunday against a military base in western Ukraine where American troops had trained Ukrainian forces just weeks earlier, bringing the war 11 miles from the border with Poland, where…

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden is sending vice-president Kamala Harris to Poland and Romania next week to express support for NATO's eastern flank even as the alliance has left Ukraine to do its own fighting against Russia after…