NATO is bracing for potential conflict, driven by concerns over Russian aggression. A new defense posture aims for a 5% of ...

Europe braces for Trump's arrival at the Nato summit with difficult questions over Iran and defence spending, following the 5 ...

Map of NATO countries NATO has 31 member countries, highlighted in dark blue, and is expected to have Sweden, in light blue, join the alliance.

The fallout at the White House between Zelenskyy and Trump has tensed the current geopolitical situation in Europe, which ...

NATO was founded in 1949 less than four years after the end of World War II, in the initial years of the Cold War, as an alliance aimed against the Soviet Union. Today, it is plunging mankind into ...

BRUSSELS — NATO member countries that signed a key Cold War-era security treaty froze their participation in the pact Tuesday just hours after Russia pulled out, raising fresh questions about ...

Next came two major waves of post-Cold War enlargement, in 1999 and 2004, when several European countries and the Baltics joined. The alliance later shifted to focus on international operations ...

Leaders of NATO countries are meeting in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, starting on Tuesday for an annual summit that is set to be dominated by the response to the war in Ukraine.

Here are some facts and figures about the organisation forged in the Cold War and re-energised by Russia’s war on Ukraine. 12 to 32. Just 12 countries were founding members of the North Atlantic ...

December 29, 2023: The Ukraine War has made NATO countries aware that the Cold War-era Russian threat has returned and is not likely to go away. This means NATO countries will have to return to Cold ...

NATO countries building up weapons stocks to levels not seen since Cold War ... the 2% GDP number should not be the target but the minimum level of defense spending for NATO countries.