Lockheed Martin Rolls Out First of F-35 Fighter Jets Ordered by NATO Member Belgium The Belgian military got its first look at the F-35A Lightning II combat jets it ordered from Lockheed Martin on Sunday at...
NATO Member-To-Be Sweden and the US Sign Defense Deal, Saying It Strengthens Regional Security On the brink of joining NATO, Sweden has signed a defense cooperation agreement with Washington that will allow the United...
Finland Closes Last Crossing Point with Russia, Sealing Off Entire Border as Tensions Rise The Raja-Jooseppi crossing point in Finland’s Arctic Lapland region, located some 155 miles from the Russian city of Murmansk...
Ukraine Insists It Sees No Sign of NATO War Fatigue Even as Fighting and Weapons Supplies Stall Ukraine's foreign minister insists that NATO allies are showing no sign of war fatigue and remain committed to helping his...
Albania's Prime Minister Calls for More NATO Troops in Neighboring Kosovo Following Ethnic Violence Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has urged NATO to further boost its military forces in Kosovo and secure the country’s...
NATO Head Says Violence in Kosovo Unacceptable While Calling for Constructive Dialogue with Serbia NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the recent violent outbreaks in Kosovo were unacceptable and perpetrators must...
NATO Freezes a Cold War-Era Security Pact After Russia Pulls Out, Raising Questions on Arms Control Many of NATO’s 31 allies are parties to the Treaty of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, which was aimed at preventing Cold...
Ukraine President Zelenskyy at NATO Defense Ministers Meeting Seeking More Support to Fight Russia For the first time, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joined a meeting of more than 50 defense leaders from around the...
US Shoots Down Armed Turkish Drone After It Came Too Close to US Troops in Syria The U.S. has shot down an armed Turkish drone that had come in too close to U.S. troops on the ground in northeastern Syria...
Kosovo Welcomes a NATO Decision to Bolster Its Troops Following Weekend Violence that Left 4 Dead Kosovo's prime minister said last weekend's shootout that left four people dead illustrates Serbia's attempts to destabilize...
Biggest Military Pay Raise in 2 Decades Finalized in Newly Released Defense Bill Service members will get a 5.2% pay raise come January under the compromise annual defense bill unveiled Wednesday night.
Israel’s Assassinations Road to Perdition The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Israel's intelligence services to launch an assassination...
Congress Tells Army to Set Higher Fitness Standards for Combat Arms Soldiers Congress is set to direct the Army to boost fitness standards for most combat-arms jobs through a compromise defense policy...
A Gigantic New ICBM Will Take US Nuclear Missiles Out of the Cold War-Era But Add 21st-Century Risks The $96 billion Sentinel overhaul involves 450 silos across five states, their control centers, three nuclear missile bases...
Army Veteran Battling Terminal Cancer Gets His Wish to Shoot a Tank One Last Time In early 2022, Jay Tenison was diagnosed with Stage IV stomach cancer after reporting pain to his doctors. After months of...
