VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Residents of Vilnius were told to take shelter and Lithuania 's president and prime minister were taken to safe locations Wednesday because of an alarm over drone activity near the border with Belarus, underlining jitters on NATO 's eastern flank over...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel this week to a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Sweden, where U.S. plans to reduce troop levels in Europe coupled with President Donald Trump 's often inconsistent stance on the alliance have created concern while the world...
GOTLAND, Sweden (AP) — The war game scenario was this: One of NATO 's newest members, Sweden, was under threat by an unnamed country that was building up troops along the military alliance 's eastern border. And in an unusual twist, non-NATO member Ukraine was there to advise on drone...
ŠIAULIAI AIR BASE, Lithuania (AP) — NATO intercepted Russian strategic bombers and fighter jets that flew over the Baltic Sea on Monday, a muscular display of air power on the alliance’s eastern flank away from the spotlight on the Middle East. French Rafale fighters were deployed from a...
The Philippines and France have officially signed a Status of Visiting Forces Agreement (SOVFA), a landmark pact that provides a legal framework for large-scale military cooperation and joint exercises between the two countries. Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr....
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday NATO and most other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, grousing that he has been unable to rally support behind his war of choice in Iran that he insists he 's conducting for the good of the world, even...
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday scrapped the tariffs that he threatened to impose on eight European nations to press for U.S. control over Greenland, pulling a dramatic reversal shortly after insisting he wanted to get the island "including right, title and...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump and his NATO counterparts are due to gather Tuesday for a summit that could unite the world 's biggest security organization around a new defense spending pledge or widen divisions among the 32 allies. Just a week ago, things had...
A multi-national task force composed of service members from countries belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is sailing to the Indo-Pacific region soon in response to China’s growing aggression, according to a ranking Philippine Navy (PN) officer. The task force includes an...
FILE - A boat navigates large icebergs near the town of Kulusuk, in eastern Greenland, on Aug. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) Remote, icy and mostly pristine, Greenland plays an outsized role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate changes taking shape all...
DND Sec. Gilberto Teodoro Jr. speaks at the 6th Katipunan Conference hosted by the Ateneo School of Government on Nov. 5, 2024. (Courtesy of Ateneo School of Government livestream) The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is not yet ready to form a security alliance patterned after the...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Xinhua) VILNIUS, Lithuania -- Türkiye agreed to advance Sweden's accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Monday, a day before the alliance's summit in the Lithuanian capital, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced....
