The military alliance routinely scrambles fighter aircraft to intercept Russian warplanes that approach or fly near NATO airspace. NATO says the Russian planes it intercepts often fail to use their transponders and don't communicate with air traffic controllers or file a flight plan. NATO jets are sent up to identify them.

The president of France says the European Union’s ongoing push to bolster its own defensive capabilities isn’t intended to spawn an alternative to the NATO alliance but to answer a long-standing U.S.

The US is considering options for punishing Nato allies which it considers to have failed to offer support during the Iran war, according to a Pentagon memo seen by Reuters.

A defense overhaul in Germany aims to increase the number of active-duty forces to 260,000 troops by the mid-2030s.

Italy has called for continued harmony within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization following reports of an ostensible plot to suspend Spain. Speaking on

Within minutes of takeoff from the Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania, they were over the Baltic Sea, first intercepting a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft and then tailing supersonic Russian bombers and their fighter escorts that neared the airspace of multiple NATO countries.

Spain's prime minister played down a leaked Pentagon email suggesting his country could face being suspended from NATO for not backing the Iran war.

The King is facing one of the most important diplomatic challenges of his reign after UK-US relations deteriorated