Kosovo President Hashim Thaci urged the EU and NATO on Thursday to warn Serbia against inciting a new conflict in Kosovo and the Balkans, but Serbia blamed Kosovo leaders for the failed agreements. European Union The Brussels meeting on Wednesday between the Serbian and Kosovo presidents and prime ministers was…
US Tanks Will Exercise Close To Russian Border.
The Romanian government spends much less than NATO’s 2% target on defense, a point U.S. President Donald Trump has brought up on numerous occasions as he pushes the alliance to do its fair share of shouldering the security burden. President Klaus Iohannis said Thursday in a letter to Premier Sorin…
In new interview for the Italian publication Corriere della Sera, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov expressed his opinion that the US and NATO are intentionally ratcheting up the level of tension on the Alliance’s eastern frontiers. Referring in his words to a “mythical” eastern menace, NATO is pre-positioning heavy military…
The Czech government has approved a plan to help fight Islamic State militants as NATO member countries look to deepen involvement against the terrorist group. The deployment will be comprised of medical personnel and additional military instructors being sent to Iraq. “Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka announced the movement of forces…
Meeting with Poland’s Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz today, Estonian Defense Minister Hannes Hanso suggested the possibility of loosening restrictions on national border crossing by allied units of NATO and speeding up the process, says The Baltic Times. Hanso depicts defense co-operation between Estonia and Poland as very good and increasingly…
After pulling out of the last conventional arms control treaty in Europe, and after rearming and redeploying forces to enable Russia to be a threat to the West if they desire, Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is open to new conventional arms control on the continent. The opening comes…
A Russian military ships and submarines were seen again near the Latvian border, the country’s National Armed Forces (NAF) said on Sunday. “In the Latvian exclusive economic zone 1o miles off the NAF territory waters, today (on September 3), were identified Russian Navy’s submarines of the Kilo and Finik classes,”…