The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has expelled seven Russian diplomats, while it has also denied accreditation to three more, AFP reports, quoting NATO’s Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg. Among other things, NATO promotes democratic values and enables its 29-member countries to consult and cooperate on defence and security-related issues to solve problems,
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Is Europe bold enough to counter US ambivalence?
The Munich Security Conference is expected to be dominated by US President Donald Trump's ambivalence toward traditional alliances, leaving Europe no choice but to step up its defense initiatives. So much for basing scholarly foreign-policy debate on the international order. "The world is becoming less international and less orderly," Ambassador Wolfgang
NATO Defence Ministers take decisions to strengthen the Alliance
NATO Defence Ministers wrapped up two days of talks in Brussels on Thursday (15 February 2018), focused on the NATO Command Structure, fair burden-sharing and the Alliance's efforts to project stability beyond its borders. On Wednesday, ministers took decisions to modernise the NATO Command Structure, in response to a changed security
Russia has better integrated electronic warfare capability than NATO: UK expert
..Helped counter drone swarm attack in Syria Russia boasts better integrated electronic warfare and “offensive and defensive electromagnetic spectrum capabilities” than NATO forces in Europe, a UK authority on the Kremlin’s military said this week. USNI News quoted Roger McDermott, a senior research fellow in war studies at King’s College London, as
Exiled Boko Haram suspect arrested in Germany
EU to meet Iran to back nuclear deal in message to Trump
By Robin Emmott, John Irish BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - European powers will reaffirm on Thursday their support for the Iran nuclear deal that Donald Trump has rejected, EU diplomats said, on the eve of a deadline for the U.S. president to decide whether to reimpose oil sanctions lifted under the agreement. At a meeting
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Russia confirms drone attacks on its Syrian air base, naval facility
Russia: CIA Information Thwarted St. Petersburg Attack
The Kremlin said Sunday that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency provided Russian authorities with information that thwarted a series of Islamic State bombings planned in St. Petersburg. Moscow said Russian President Vladimir Putin called U.S. President Donald Trump to thank him for the CIA information, a call the White House confirmed. Russia said the intelligence was significant enough for
Macron to propose military action against human traffickers
French President Emmanuel Macron told FRANCE 24 on Wednesday that he would be proposing military action against human traffickers to combat migrant slave trading. Macron has also called for an "urgent operation" to evacuate victims from Libya. In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24 on the sidelines of the 2017 African