A new NATO-led air defense mission in Poland sprang into action this week by scrambling F-35 jets in response to a potential ...

President also plans to ask for "financial contribution" for maintenance of remaining troops, European diplomatic source said ...

The Kremlin has been accused of a series of attacks abroad in recent years, including shooting down a passenger plane in ...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called for drastically higher defence spending in the European Union in an address to the ...

Poland’s hesitancy has been clearest on the issue of stationing NATO troops in Ukraine, if a ceasefire can be reached. Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, proposed the idea, and it gained ...

Germany, Poland, Britain, France and Italy will implement as swiftly as possible new NATO targets for weapons and troop numbers which the alliance is about to agree upon, German Defence Minister ...

on defence – a huge increase from the current 2% goal and a level that no NATO country, including the United States, currently achieves. This demand, repeated on Monday as he took office ...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday said that he would seek the "closest possible" cooperation with the United States despite "objective difficulties", speaking days before US president-elect ...

The U.K., France and other allies have discussed the possibility of deploying peacekeeping troops to Ukraine as the war ...

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