Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday criticized NATO for not being of assistance in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Rubio is heading to a meeting with the alliance's foreign ministers in Sweden.

European state officials are meeting in Prague to discuss the state of the transatlantic alliance at a global security conference

The countries along NATO’s eastern flank have long been on the frontline against Russian aggression. But now they are in the firing line between Ukraine’s long-range drones and targets in northwest Russia.

Mr Trump has been casting doubt on his commitment to NATO and its Article 5 mutual-defence clause since the start of his second term. That has prompted a long-overdue increase in European defence spending.

A Russian surveillance ship was loitering near an ongoing NATO submarine warfare exercise in the Norwegian Sea, NATO’s Maritime Command said Thursday. Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Dom Francisco de Almeida (F334) and a Royal Navy Merlin Mk 2 helicopter from aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales (R09) shadowed Russian surveillance ship Yury Ivanov as it lingered near NATO forces participating in exercise Dynamic Mongoose in the Norwegian Sea.

NATO is discussing the possibility of helping ships pass through the blocked Strait of Hormuz if the waterway isn’t reopened by early July, according to a senior official in the military alliance.

The Pentagon announced it is reducing Brigade Combat Teams in Europe from four to three as the Trump administration pressures NATO allies on defense.

Sweden joined the military alliance in 2024 after it said that Russia's invasion of Ukraine had changed the security landscape.

By Gram Slattery, Jonathan Landay and Andrew Gray WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, May 19 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is planning to tell NATO allies this week that it will shrink the pool of military capabilities that the U.

NATO intelligence officials believe Russia is developing underwater nuclear missile systems which could be hidden on the seabed of the Arctic, according to reports. NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation,