NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg insisted during a press conference Thursday that the military alliance is not playing and will not play a role in the ongoing conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, a conflict NATO ally Turkey has reportedly flooded with imported Syrian mercenaries.
NATO has a new mission. Defending the West from the Russians is so last century: now it wants to save the world from ‘Climate Change.’
ATHENS, Greece — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is due to arrive in Greece on an official visit early Monday, has had a conversation on tensions in the eastern Mediterranean with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
Appearing Thursday on the Fox Business Network, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reaffirmed that President Donald Trump is making the military alliance “stronger.”
President Donald Trump celebrated “another win” on Monday by announcing the U.S. State Department had helped broker direct airline flights between Serbia and Kosovo.
Donald Trump has hailed NATO, telling the press it is now “stranger than it has ever been” in a positive end to the London conference.
President Trump is raising questions over President Macron saying the alliance was suffering a “brain death”, calling the comments insulting.
Emmanuel Macron has claimed that NATO is suffering a “brain death”, and that Europe can no longer depend on the United States of America to defend her.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, in a move designed to ease concerns in Israel that Tehran could move to exploit the political vacuum left after the U.S. withdrew forces from Syria.
Turkey’s Syria offensive has created fresh divisions within NATO and, while there is no chance of Ankara being thrown out, the crisis adds to pressures on the alliance as it heads towards a crucial summit in December.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday the Atlantic alliance must counter China’s growing influence in the Pacific, working closely with allies such as Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea.
The United States formally withdrew from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty on Friday, concluding a six-month advisory period in which Russia failed to correct its repeated violations of the agreement.
BRUSSELS (AP) – NATO has extended the mandate of its top civilian official, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, for two years, making the former Norwegian premier one of the longest-serving heads of the military alliance. Stoltenberg said Thursday he is “honored” by
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is to host a key meeting in London in December, an event which will bring dozens of government and state leaders from allied nations across to the world to the British capital just months after the United Kingdom officially departs the European Union.
Polish President Andrzej Duda raised alarms Tuesday at the White House to the danger of a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany that President Donald Trump alerted to at a summer NATO summit.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is evaluating a proposal by Conservative British Member of Parliament Tom Tugendhat to name its new headquarters in Brussels after the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), reports indicated Wednesday.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday heralded the $33 billion increase in NATO allies’ spending but added that his Monday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The United States, the top oil and gas seller, will compete with Russia’s gas pipeline to Germany, according to President Donald Trump, who addressed his previously expressed concern about the Nord Stream II pipeline during Monday’s joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a pull-aside meeting at the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday during which they discussed a German gas pipeline to Russia that Trump had openly criticized that morning.
Senior figures within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) scrabbled to justify low levels of commitment to the organisation and defence spending ahead of President Donald J. Trump’s arrival in Brussels Tuesday.
“President Xi could be influencing Kim Jong-un,” Trump said, pointing out that the North Korean dictator signaled a willingness to work for peace before visiting China for the second time.
Contents: Socialists and feminists to act as ‘human shields’ protecting Kurds from Turkey in Afrin Syria; US cuts back operations in Incirlik as Turkey-NATO relations sour
The latest outbreak of ransomware has renewed discussions of invoking NATO Article 5 in response to cyberattacks – the article that calls for mutual defense against a military attack.
The chief of NATO, ahead of American President Donald Trump’s speech, said the alliance would join the U.S.-led coalition combating the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), but it may not “engage in combat operations.”
During an interview on Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated that “many” NATO members “have to invest more in defense.” And that he would like NATO to do more to fight terrorism. said that
At a meeting with NATO ministers in Brussels, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared that “American and NATO support for Ukraine remains steadfast,” and the allies “stand firm in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
In a telephone conversation with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday, President Donald Trump agreed to a meeting in May with leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The summit is to be held in Brussels.
Fresh from his confirmation, Defense Secretary James Mattis declared the United States has an “unshakable commitment to NATO” as NATO was demonstrating its unshakable commitment to the Baltics by putting 1,200 troops in Lithuania.
Israel will open a mission at NATO headquarters in Brussels as part of efforts to boost cooperation with the US-led alliance to counter extremist violence, top officials said Tuesday.
A Brussels-based European affairs weekly newspaper has reported “common ground” between the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and presumptive Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, noting both men believe U.S. spending on the military alliance is “unsustainable”. At an
The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) yesterday announced that the intergovernmental military alliance is beefing up its Baltic battalions in order to prevent conflict, but denies this is a “Cold War” with Russia. Speaking in Berlin, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a visit to Greece, issued a threat to retaliate somehow against the installation of American missile defense systems in Eastern European countries.
NATO is sending a naval group “without delay” to help stop people smugglers in the Aegean Sea, following a request from Germany, Greece and Turkey, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday. NATO “is now directing the standing maritime group
Turkey claims another Russian warplane violated its airspace on Friday, only two months after Turkish planes shot down a Russian jet, killing the pilot. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that Russia would “endure the consequences” if its planes keep crossing into Turkey.
Islamic State earns about $500 million a year from its oil revenues. But according to former CIA director Mike Morrell, US fighter aircraft have been ordered not to bomb their oil wells in case they cause “environmental damage.” Yes. That makes
As tensions build between Turkey and Russia following the destruction of a Russian warplane by Turkish F-16s Tuesday morning, Russian state outlet RT.com reports that a missile cruiser has been deployed off the Syrian coast, with orders to “destroy any target posing danger.”
NATO has rejected Moscow’s explanation that its warplanes had violated alliance member Turkey’s air space by mistake and said Russia was sending more ground troops to Syria and building up its naval presence. With Russia extending its air strikes to include
Russian warplanes have violated Turkish airspace at least twice during the Russian air campaign against Syrian rebels, and the Secretary-General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, said these penetrations appear deliberate.
Contents: Turkey threatens Russia if airspace violations are repeated; Russia’s incursions may be targeting Turkey’s Hatay province
In what many will interpret as an astonishing snub to NATO in the face of Russian aggression, President Obama has refused to meet with the new head of the treaty group, who is currently visiting Washington, D.C.
