It’s been hours since the start of the military coup attempt against the government of NATO member Turkey and so far the most public response from the international alliance is a Tweet from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg calling for “calm.”
“Economic giant, political dwarf” — that is how the world long viewed post-World War II Germany, the European export power reluctant to use military muscle in global conflicts.
On July 9 Obama criticized Texas open carry laws, contending that police safety rests on gun control.
Contents: Japan’s elections put constitution’s pacifism clause into question; Nato deploying a ‘tripwire’ of 4,000 soldiers along Russia’s border
On Friday, President Obama said he was “horrified” by the killing of Dallas Police officers during the July 7 Black Lives Matter rally and signaled a push for more gun control will be forthcoming.
AFP – NATO leaders meet on Friday for a landmark summit in Warsaw to send an uncompromising message to a resurgent Russia while trying to contain the fallout from Britain’s dramatic vote to quit the European Union. Britain’s divorce from
From Politico: As governments and markets around the world work to make sense of Britain’s vote last week to leave the European Union, President Barack Obama dismissed the global reaction to the seismic move as “hysteria”. In an interview on
The Egyptian government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has provided funds and weapons to the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a Marxist-inspired guerrilla group listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and the rest of NATO, according to a Turkish intelligence report.
Britain’s vote to leave the EU will not impact a summit next month of the NATO military alliance, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said.
Soon after Britain voted to leave the European Union (EU), its foreign affairs chief, Elmar Brok, urged the economic and political bloc to go ahead with plans to create an army. The German politician told Die Welt that EU countries
Contents: Turkey and Israel close to restoring diplomatic relations; Turkey drops demand for lifting the blockade of Gaza; Proposal for offshore seaport raises controversy; Russia improves military ties with Israel, will not veto relationship with Turkey
In a speech before the Russian Parliament on Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin called for “strengthening the combat readiness of our country” against “aggressive” NATO.
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.
For nearly three-quarters of a century, America’s erstwhile allies in Europe and Asia have gotten a free ride on the American defense train. But Islamic terrorism and Donald Trump may be changing all that.
London’s thesis is that President Obama is “unwilling to engage the world, in the way in which it really exists.”
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NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday demanded that Russia withdraw its forces and military hardware from Ukraine, and halt its support for pro-Moscow separatists battling Kiev. “Russia needs to stop supporting the militants and withdraw its forces and military equipment
Israel’s efforts to reconcile with NATO member Turkey will help enhance Israeli intelligence sharing and other security cooperation with the alliance, a NATO diplomat said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel was ready to share intelligence with NATO to help fight extremist violence, as he met with ambassadors from alliance nations ahead of a summit.
A Massachusetts left-wing congressman in a closely-held letter passed to Breitbart News called on colleagues to ramp up the flow of Syrian refugees less than 48 hours after terrorist Omar Mateen executed 49 revelers at Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub and wounded at least 50 more.
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
The NATO military alliance is not seeking confrontation with Russia by reinforcing its battalions in eastern Europe, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in Berlin on Thursday.
NATO currently recognizes air, sea, land, and space as operational domains of warfare, but at next month’s Warsaw summit meeting, the alliance is expected to add “cyber” as the fifth domain.
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.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday called for NATO forces to replace the IDF in the West Bank as part of as part of any peace deal that leads to the creation of a two-state solution.
Plans for a European Union (EU) army, including a centralised headquarters and “permanent structured defence co-operation,” have been leaked despite the EU attempting to hide the plot until the day after the Brexit vote. The European Commission had been keeping
During a recent New Jersey campaign stop to support his wife’s presidential bid, former U.S. President Bill Clinton suggested the people of Poland had decided democracy is too much trouble and that Poles want a Putin-type authoritarian leadership.
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel would upgrade its ties with the 28-member NATO military alliance by opening a permanent mission to its Brussels headquarters. “I declare that Israel will accept the invitation and open
U.S. President Barack Obama has penned an opinion column in Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper outlining why he believes Britain should remain in the European Union (EU). The core of his arguments are: that Britain’s voice would be lost without Brussels
On Sunday, U.S. officials revealed another incident involving Russian pilots acting in an “unsafe and unprofessional” manner over the Baltic Sea. This time, a Russian fighter intercepted a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane, coming within fifty feet of the American aircraft before executing a barrel roll over it.
A resurgent al-Qaeda is “very active” and poses a “big threat” to Afghanistan, the country’s acting defense minister told CNN.
Contents: John Kerry instructs Afghanistan officials how to run their government; Troubles mount for Afghanistan government as US withdrawal looms
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The Taliban has said it will not engage in peace talks with the Afghan government because it is winning in Afghanistan.
Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) discussed a private meeting he attended with GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. Cotton keyed in one aspect, which was Trump’s questions about NATO, which Trump had said was obsolete. Cotton
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the show’s panel made up of the Aspen Institute’s Walter Isaacson, the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass, former McCain and Bush strategist Nicolle Wallace, former RNC chairman Michael Steele, former Obama “car czar” Steve
Senator Ted Cruz tied his rival Donald Trump to President Barack Obama in response to the Islamic terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium, Tuesday.
On Monday, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump criticized the U.S. role in NATO, the Cold War alliance that has since expanded, echoing remarks in 2011 by then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
Jerusalem (AFP) – Israel’s government on Sunday warned against travel to Turkey after three of its citizens were killed in an Istanbul suicide bombing the previous day. The country’s anti-terrorism office raised its threat assessment and “recommends avoiding visits to
