Bulgaria asks EU and NATO to help identify drones that sank ship in Black Sea
Sofia has turned to Brussels and the alliance after its own investigators failed to recover any drone wreckage from the attack on two merchant vessels inside its…
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Bulgaria ends search for crew of ship sunk by drones off its coast
Sofia says the strike inside its Black Sea economic zone does not trigger NATO consultations, as Brussels offers solidarity but no protection for merchant shipping.
Russia must be ready to use nuclear weapons, Putin adviser says
Karaganov tied the argument to President Vladimir Putin's remarks at the Valdai forum on October 1.
Downing Street says Fairford is safe as Washington plays down bomber withdrawal
The British Government has insisted the Gloucestershire base is secure, though American officials have given competing accounts of why the B-1s left.
Trump to look at a US military base in Lithuania
Vilnius has offered to pay for a permanent American presence, while Warsaw is still waiting for Washington to name the site of its own base.
Rubio lands in Iceland as US tightens its Arctic grip
The visit comes two weeks after Washington sealed a security pact on Greenland and five weeks after Icelanders voted against reopening European Union accession talks.
Latvian Right wins record mandate as Kulbergs takes 41 seats
Latvian Way's 36 seats in 1993 had been the previous high. Turnout was 51.8 per cent.
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Who is provoking whom?
European intelligence warns of increasing Russian military aggression, with hybrid attacks on NATO countries rising.
British police arrest five near air base and evacuate Gloucestershire village
Officers have given no indication of a motive and have not linked the five men to any country, group or cause.
UN Palestine rapporteur Albanese says NATO keeps Ukraine war open and backs halt to arms
The political calculation that kept "that front" open, she said, "does not originate in Europe, but inside NATO, NATO led by the United States".
Kallas calls for tougher action on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ as sanctions renewal stalls
The EU foreign policy chief has said Europe must raise the price Moscow pays for its sabotage campaign, while also asking member states for more warships in the…
US asks Poland to postpone defence minister’s Pentagon visit
Warsaw is sending two deputy ministers to Washington in his place, days after Donald Trump hailed progress towards a permanent US Army base in Poland.
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On the brink of war? Europe’s leaders press on towards confrontation with Russia
Germany counted hospital beds for wounded troops, Lithuania mapped escape routes and Britain asked households to stock tinned food.
Trump hails ‘major progress’ towards permanent US base in Poland
The US President credited Karol Nawrocki as Warsaw said two sites remained in contention and a decision was expected within weeks.
Russian frigate fires flares at Danish military helicopter over the Baltic
Copenhagen has summoned Russia's ambassador after one of the flares passed close to the aircraft during a routine patrol off the Danish coast.
NATO jets shoot down drone over central Lithuania
Italian Eurofighters on Baltic Air Policing duty destroyed the aircraft near Kaunas in what Lithuanian officials have called the first interception of its kind over…
Lithuania urges NATO to answer Russia in the ‘grey zone’ after Leipzig attack
Defence minister Robertas Kaunas said the alliance had to meet Moscow's hybrid operations with an equivalent response, a day after Berlin blamed Russia for the failed…
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Von der Leyen and Rutte meet in Brussels over ‘Russian hybrid attacks’
Talks at the Berlaymont come a day after Berlin said Moscow was behind the explosive-laden drone found at Leipzig/Halle airport.
Merz says Germany close to response over suspected Leipzig drone attack
Speaking on ARD public television's summer interview, Merz said investigators were "in the process of concluding the investigation".
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Poland seeks ‘several’ US bases but rules out nuclear warheads
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth unveiled the review at a NATO defence ministerial in Brussels on June 18 and Colby formally launched it on July 27.
Trump rules out Russian attack on NATO after ‘good talks’ with Putin
The US President has dismissed reported intelligence warnings of a Russian move against the alliance, as Baltic governments say their own threat assessments are…
Kremlin denies NATO attack plans after CIA chief’s Moscow visit
Dmitry Peskov has dismissed Western reporting on Russian designs against alliance territory as scare stories with no basis in Moscow's intentions.
Meloni admits relationship with Trump ‘would be easier’
The Italian Prime Minister says she has not spoken to the US President for weeks and that Rome's strategy does not turn on personal ties.
Latvia confirms downed drone was Ukrainian
Latvia's National Armed Forces said that analysis of the recovered debris had established its origin.
Former US ambassador calls NATO rebrand ‘lipstick on a pig’
Ivo Daalder said Washington no longer treated the security of Europe as bound up with its own.
Spanish NATO jets scramble as drone crashes in eastern Romania
A drone entered Romanian airspace near Galați before coming down in an unpopulated area of Tulcea county, the defence ministry said.
NATO jet shoots down drone over Romania near Moldovan border
A Spanish F-18 destroyed the aircraft in the fourth such interception over Romanian airspace this year, with the alliance saying the drone appeared to be Russian.
Dutch defence minister says Putin ‘is not impressed by a nature park’
The five-year measure would make it easier to conduct night-time live-fire exercises, dig trenches, train with drones and accelerate or deviate from certain permit…
Trump confirms he left NATO summit in secret as Air Force One flew as decoy
The US President said the Secret Service and the military put him on a different aircraft while the presidential jet flew out of Ankara carrying reporters who believed…
Russia has found counters to all NATO weapons used by Ukraine
Former army chief pointed to the early impact and subsequent decline in effectiveness of specific systems.