US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said the alliance needs to present clear steps to meet a defense spending target of 5% ...

Over the course of just a few days, he visited three key Persian Gulf states—Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates ...

Greece itself spent nearly 3.1% of its GDP on defense last year, NATO estimates. Athens has been consistently exceeding the 2 ...

The debate on defense spending is heating up before the summit of President Donald Trump and his NATO counterparts in the Netherlands on June 24-25. That gathering will set the course for future ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz has inaugurated a groundbreaking German brigade in Lithuania that is meant to help protect NATO’s ...

NATO countries look on course to agree a deal on ramping up their defence spending target at a summit in The Hague next month in a bid to satisfy US President Donald Trump.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged his Spanish counterpart, Jose Manuel Albares, during a meeting in Washington to ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has traveled to NATO partner Lithuania to inaugurate a German brigade meant to protect the ...

NATO foreign ministers are debating a US proposal to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP amid growing concerns over Russia and China. Secretary-General Mark Rutte emphasized the need for ...

As NATO prepares for its pivotal summit in The Hague on June 24-25, 2025, Secretary-General Mark Rutte faces a defining ...

If we take into account only the 23 EU member states that are also members of NATO, defence expenditure ... This corresponds to 88.2% of defence investments and to a year-on-year increase of more than ...

NATO will raise the defence spending target for its member nations to between 3.5% and 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) ...