Defense

Local authorities make rare admission of Kremlin advances.

The new target is expected to be agreed at next month’s NATO summit.

Germany is under pressure to supply Ukraine with its powerful long-range Taurus cruise missiles.

Warsaw wants to use around €6 billion in EU money to build shelters and roads for tanks.

Senior SPD lawmaker Ralf Stegner tells Stern magazine that the ‘humanitarian catastrophe … must not be prolonged with German weapons.”

“Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever,” Trump says in an excoriating post aimed at the Russian president.

Warm words at the Brexit reset summit can’t hide big splits over how to proceed on Britain’s participation in a crucial EU defense fund.

Turkey’s Hakan Fidan is expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his visit.

The plans involve slashing the number of staffers in the NSC to less than 150, according to three people familiar with the restructuring.

Petr Pavel is calling for Europe to be able to work independently of the U.S. but “not necessarily separately.”

French president seeks greater access to the Chinese market and urges Beijing not to impose tariffs on Cognac makers.

Morning of legal drama threatened to throw a spanner in the works of Keir Starmer’s plan to seal the controversial territorial deal.

This isn’t the first time in recent weeks that an act of violence has rocked the country’s Jewish community.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war on woke in the Pentagon is serving as a model for Germany’s far right.

Attacks ramped up after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

Berlin’s defense minister outlines mistakes made by U.S. president in talks with Russia.

European Council President António Costa calls the agreement, “an important step toward a stronger Europe.”

The first tranche of funding would come from Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” that Congress has yet to pass.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the U.K. was acting to “restrict Putin’s war machine.”

New Berlin government wants to make the Bundeswehr the strongest conventional army in Europe.

A further deal allowing U.K. companies to benefit from an EU plan to boost defense spending is still to be agreed.

The president signaled that the U.S. would not play a mediating role in the discussions.

Keir Starmer says Britain’s “back on the world stage” — but he’s facing scrutiny over a big compromise on fish.