The defense alliance of 32 countries is planning to invest billions in its security over the coming decade. But it’s a splurge that some European NATO members, saddled with huge debt burdens, can ...

At the latest Nato summit in The Hague, the alliance announced that members had set a new target of spending 5 per cent of ...

US President Donald Trump, left, talks with secretary general of NATO Mark Rutte, center, during a family photo at the 2025 NATO summit in The Hague, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (Haiyun Jiang/Pool ...

But Spain remains a rare holdout, angering U.S. President Donald Trump, who has painted the policy as a personal win.

NATO's 5% spending commitment is a watershed moment for an alliance dogged by laggard investment outside the U.S. — if, that ...

The head of the NATO military alliance warned Monday that no country could have an opt-out from a massive new hike in ...

On July 22, the country’s Ministry of Defence told state-run news agency STA the government has fully withdrawn from the ...

Secretary General Mark Rutte of the North Atlantic Treaty believes Russia will be ready to attack by 2030. Mr. Brooke has ...

Early this year, when Donald Trump was threatening to turn his back on NATO unless its members dramatically increased their ...

NATO leaders have agreed on a massive hike in defense spending after pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, and expressed their “ironclad commitment” to come to each other’s aid if attacked ...

The show of unity vindicated NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte’s billing of the summit as “transformational,” even though it papered over divisions. The spending pledge sets European allies and Canada ...

It comes as the United States — NATO’s biggest-spending member — shifts its attention away from Europe to focus on security priorities elsewhere, notably in the Middle East and Indo-Pacific.