NATO countries are ready to “turbocharge” defense spending, the alliance’s top official said this week.

President Vladimir Putin said Russia’s ready for talks with the U.S. on the war in Ukraine as he offered congratulations to incoming President Donald Trump on his inauguration.

French President Emmanuel Macron called on Europe Monday to “wake up” and spend more on defense in order to reduce its reliance on the United States for its security, in a speech to the French military as Donald Trump returns to power.

Donald Trump began erasing Joe Biden ‘s legacy immediately after taking office as the nation’s 47th president on Monday, pardoning nearly all of his supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and issuing a blizzard of executive orders that signal his desire to remake American institutions.

Poland’s six-month presidency of the European Union is firmly focused on security. As Europe’s biggest land war in decades rages, fewer places highlight the challenges and contradictions of defending the bloc and its values more starkly than the border with Belarus.

An emerging consensus among U.S. and European security services holds that accidents were the cause of damage to Baltic seabed energy and communications lines.

Weapons and notes left on dead North Korean troops in Russia give Ukraine a glimpse into their mindset — and show how they are quickly adapting to modern war.

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with a barrage of drones and missiles Saturday, leaving at least three people dead, while industrial sites in Russia were set ablaze by Ukrainian strikes.

Hundreds of Swedish troops arrived in Latvia on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO’s eastern flank, a mission Sweden is calling its most significant operation so far as a member of the Western defense alliance.

A Navy submarine spotted earlier this week near Gibraltar made a port visit to the city.

The European Union is debating whether to drop a sensitive trade investigation against China over alleged coercive activity targeting Lithuania, a prospect that’s frustrated officials in Washington, where the incoming Trump team sees it as capitulation to Beijing.

Nigel Farage denied being anti-immigration and advocated for market-friendly fiscal policies in a bid to show that his insurgent Reform UK was ready to challenge Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party for power.

The attorneys were jailed on Friday with sentences from 3 1/2 to five years. They were arrested in October 2023 on charges of involvement with extremist groups. The case was widely seen as a way to discourage defense lawyers from taking political opposition cases.

The Kremlin says the “comprehensive strategic partnership treaty” signed Friday by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, covers all areas -– from trade and military cooperation to science, education and culture.

The Baltic nation currently spends a bit over 3%. With the president’s pledge, it becomes the first NATO nation to vow to reach a 5% goal recently called for by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, up from the current 2% target.

A new NATO-led air defense mission in Poland sprang into action this week, scrambling F-35 jets in response to a potential Russian drone incursion, the American general who serves as the alliance’s top military commander said.

Sgt. Trent Goines and a female soldier were serving in Poland in June 2022 when they went out together after work with another friend and drank late into the night. Months later, the female soldier passed out during formation and soon discovered she was pregnant.

Nearly 100 Indians have been lured to Russia by offers of jobs or education, only to find themselves forced into service by the army, according to the Indian government and families. The 10th Indian died this month, reviving a thorny issue in the otherwise thriving relationship between New Delhi and Moscow.