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President Donald Trump said NATO countries must sharply increase their defense spending, demanding member states push beyond current benchmarks that many of them already struggle to hit.

Time for another NATO Summit, this one in Warsaw, Poland. Each has a theme, several photo ops for the attending leaders, a terrific dinner, an official communique, four or five... Anyone who came ...

Now men will go content with what we spoiled. Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. - Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting” (1919)  There have been

Summary: Formed in 1949 to counter Soviet expansion, NATO aimed to prevent Western Europe’s military overrun, focusing on maintaining air superiority, open sea communication lines to North ...

Ukraine's absence in NATO could pose a threat to Poland's border, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned, in response to a remark by Karol Nawrocki, a Polish presidential candidate supported by the former ruling socially-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party.

Nato warplanes were scrambled overnight because of a major Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.

Zapewniłem Prezydenta @ZelenskyyUa, że może być absolutnie przekonany o tym, że Polska będzie zawsze wspierała sprawę Ukrainy na każdym forum. W istocie więc Ukraina będzie miała przedstawiciela Polski po swojej stronie - Prezydent RP @AndrzejDuda. pic.twitter.com/qO8dWsKXKr

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the alliance is launching a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of Swedish troops arrived in Latvia on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO's eastern flank, a mission Sweden is calling its most significant operation so far as a member of the Western defense ...

Although the exact amount that Poland spent on defense in 2024 is not yet fully known, data from the Ministry of National Defense make it possible to draw up a preliminary picture. According to the publication Gazeta.