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President Macron said spending commitments would remain the same despite Trump's claim of increased budgets

Macron tempers Trump's claim over NATO spending

French President Emmanuel Macron has said NATO's spending commitments remain the same despite US President Donald Trump saying he had pushed fellow NATO leaders to boost their budgets immediately.

World • 12 Jul 18

Chancellor Merkel and President Trump held talks while attending a NATO summit in Brussels

Trump and Merkel meet after his criticism of Germany

US President Donald Trump has held talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels, hours after he fiercely criticised German policy on defence spending and gas imports from Russia.

World • 11 Jul 18

More than 600,000 migrants have reached Italy by boat from Africa in the past five years

Italy to ask NATO to help deal with migrant crisis

Italy wants NATO to help defend its southern shores from an influx of migrants, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has said.

Europe • 08 Jun 18

Police water cannons in operation during the protest in Hamburg

Over 70 police injured in clashes with G20 protesters

More than 70 German police officers have been injured in clashes with protesters in Hamburg ahead of the G20 summit.

World • 07 Jul 17

Donald Tusk, Justin Trudeau, Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Paolo Gentiloni, Emmanuel Macron, Shinzo Abe, Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker at the summit

G7 nations vow to step up fight against terrrorism

The G7 nations have demanded action from internet providers and social media firms against extremist content online, vowing to step up their fight against terrorism after the Manchester attack.

World • 26 May 17

NATO leaders at the organisation's new headquarters

Trump calls for greater defence spending at NATO

US President Donald Trump has arrived at NATO's new headquarters for his first summit with leaders of the alliance he once described as "obsolete".

World • 25 May 17

Donald Trump is to meet NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg ahead of the summit

Trump to attend NATO summit in May

The White House has confirmed that US President Donald Trump will take part in a summit of NATO leaders in Brussels on 25 May, the first since his election victory last year.

Politics • 22 Mar 17

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the 28 NATO leaders had approved a plan for the alliance's planes to fly over international airspace and help the US-led coalition

NATO to deploy surveillance planes against IS

NATO leaders agreed today to deploy sophisticated surveillance aircraft to support the US-led fight against the so-called Islamic State group in Syria.

News • 09 Jul 16

Donald Trump was addressing pro-Israel lobby group, AIPAC

Trump: Top priority is to dismantle Iran deal

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has declared that his first foreign policy priority if he becomes US president would be to dismantle the Iran nuclear deal and what he said was Iran's global terror network.

World • 23 Mar 16

Russian military jets have been carrying out air strikes on targets in northern Syria near the Turkish border

NATO warns Russia over Turkish airspace violations

NATO has told Russia to halt its incursions into the airspace of Turkey, a member of the alliance, saying the violations were both extremely dangerous and irresponsible.

News • 05 Oct 15

Russia has dismissed a claim that Moscow has sent 'thousands' of troops to fight in eastern Ukraine

Ukraine accuses rebels of violating ceasefire

One Ukrainian soldier was killed and another wounded fighting pro-Russian separatists in the east, a military spokesman said, as the Ukrainian government accused rebels of increasing violations of a ceasefire deal.

News • 05 Mar 15

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said he will apply for NATO membership

Ukraine votes to drop neutral status

Ukraine's parliament has taken a historic step towards NATO membership by overwhelmingly voting to revoke the nation's neutral status.

News • 23 Dec 14

12,500 soldiers will provide training and assistance for the Afghan security forces

US Defence Secretary visits Kabul

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Kabul on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan in the final weeks of NATO's US-led 13-year war against the Taliban.

News • 06 Dec 14

Ukrainian servicemen repair their equipment in a base camp near the town of Debaltseve in Donetsk

Three killed in overnight attacks in Donetsk

Three Ukrainian civilians have died overnight in mortar fire around Donetsk airport, where government forces held out against pro-Russian rebels in the latest deadly violation of a ceasefire.

News • 10 Oct 14

NATO's Secretary-General said cyber defence is now part of NATO's core task of collective defence

Cyber attacks may result in military response

NATO leaders have agreed that a large-scale cyber attack on a member country could be considered an attack on the entire US-led alliance, potentially triggering a military response.

News • 05 Sep 14

A boy from Eastern Ukraine sweeps the floor at a temporary refugee camp in Donetsk

EU agrees new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine

The European Union has agreed on a new package of economic sanctions against Russia, despite a ceasefire between government forces and pro-Kremlin rebels in Ukraine.

News • 05 Sep 14

A destroyed armoured vehicle on the road of the airport in the south of Luhansk

EU proposes tough new sanctions on Russia

European officials proposed new sanctions today to starve Russia's companies of capital and technology as punishment for Moscow's intervention in Ukraine.

News • 02 Sep 14

NATO soldiers on patrol in Parwan earlier this year

Suicide bomb in Afghanistan leaves 16 dead

At least four NATO servicemen were killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan this morning, the International Security Assistance Force said.

News • 08 Jul 14

Russian troops unload military trucks in Simferopol in Crimea

Russia has enough troops for Ukraine 'incursion'

NATO's top military commander has said Russia has all the forces it needs on the Ukrainian border if it was to decide to carry out an "incursion" into the country.

News • 02 Apr 14

Ukraine has been moving its tanks and artillery from Crimea (Pic: EPA)

NATO plans more support for eastern Europe

NATO will discuss new steps to reinforce eastern European countries worried by Russia's annexation of Crimea and on how to bolster Ukraine's armed forces.

News • 01 Apr 14

Jens Stoltenberg will take over as NATO chief on 1 October

Stoltenberg appointed next NATO chief

Former Norwegian premier Jens Stoltenberg was named the next NATO chief, stepping in to take over from current secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen at a key moment in Europe.

News • 28 Mar 14

Viktor Yanukovych made a statement to journalists in southern Russia this morning

Ukrainian elections 'illegitimate' - Yanukovych

Deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych said he remains the country’s president and commander-in-chief of its armed forces.

News • 11 Mar 14

Pigs are shot by marksmen to replicate battlefield wounds

UK defends shooting of pigs for military training

Britain's Ministry of Defence has defended its involvement in the shooting of pigs for medical training after fresh criticism of the practice.

News • 18 Feb 14

The cause of the crash is under investigation

Six NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan crash

Six NATO soldiers have been killed in a plane crash in southern Afghanistan.

News • 17 Dec 13

NATO advises crews not to fire at or bomb populated areas

NATO airstrike in Afghanistan 'killed civilians'

Afghan officials have said a NATO airstrike targeting insurgents in the east of the country has killed at least eight civilians, including seven women and children.

News • 08 Sep 13