Somalis gather to protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal for the Gaza Strip, at the Peace Garden, in Mogadishu, Somalia Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.

OTTAWA - Defence Minister Bill Blair says Canada could hit its NATO defence spending target within just a few years if need be but didn’t commit to doing so. NATO members have all committed to ...

OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump says he will push members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to spend far more money on defence, increasing pressure on countries like Canada ...

"This is also the border of both the European Union and the NATO territory," said Colonel ... such as Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, are first flown to Minsk, often with Belarusian ...

Thousands of British troops are heading for a massive NATO exercise, Steadfast Dart, aimed to demonstrate the alliance’s ability to deploy rapidly in response to escalating tensions near Russia ...

STUTTGART, Germany — NATO countries are ready to “turbocharge” defense spending, the alliance’s top official said this week as the security bloc prepares for President Donald Trump’s ...

Nick Schifrin discussed how the world is responding to Trump's inauguration with Jens Stoltenberg, the most recent secretary general of NATO who will become the chairman of the Munich Security ...

Sweden sent 550 troops from one of its mechanized infantry battalions to Riga, Latvia, on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade on NATO’s eastern flank. Latvia borders Russia to the ...

NATO’s leadership will have to work adroitly to avoid a crisis. Warning adversaries about what would befall them if they threatened any of the 32 NATO members through military action is a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In 2018, President Donald Trump privately warned that he might withdraw the US from NATO. He complained that other alliance members weren't contributing their fair share of defense spending ...

Hundreds of Swedish troops have arrived in Latvia to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO’s eastern flank WARSAW, Poland -- Hundreds of Swedish troops arrived in Latvia on ...