Pristina: NATO forces in Kosovo are ready to face any situation if acts of violence similar to recent encounters threaten the peace, the NATO commander in Pristina said on Tuesday. Some 30 NATO peacekeeping soldiers defending three town halls in northern Kosovo were injured in clashes
Zvecan: The US-led military alliance NATO is planning to send 700 extra troops to Kosovo and put another battalion on high alert to go in as unrest in the region has intensified since ethnic Albanian mayors took office in the country’s northern Serb-majority area after
Beijing: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is planning to open a liaison office in Japan, its first in Asia, to conduct consultations with its key allies in the region, the Nikkei Asia reported on Thursday. The station will allow the military alliance to facilitate periodic
United Nations: Russia’s Foreign Minister warned that the European Union “is becoming militarized at a record rate” and aggressive in its goal of containing Russia. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a news conference he has no doubts that there is now “very little difference” between the
Mosow: Channels of telephone communication between Russia and NATO remain open but normal diplomatic relations between the two sides are out of the question, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said on Friday. Relations between Moscow and the US-led Atlantic alliance are at post-Cold War lows
Brussels: NATO allies on Friday threw their weight behind U.S. complaints that Russia is violating the New START nuclear arms control treaty and called on Moscow to come back into compliance. "NATO Allies agree the New START Treaty contributes to international stability by constraining Russian and
Tokyo: Japan and NATO must "remain united and firm" in the face of security threats posed by China, North Korea and Russia’s war in Ukraine, Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday in Tokyo. Stoltenberg, secretary general of the European and North American military alliance, warned that Beijing was
Dubai: Iran and Russia have connected their interbank communication and transfer systems to help boost trade and financial transactions, a senior Iranian official said, as both Tehran and Moscow are chafing under Western sanctions. Since the 2018 reimposition of US sanctions on Iran after Washington ditched
London: Boris Johnson has called for Ukraine to be admitted to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and launched a thinly veiled attack on Germany and the US over the failed deal to donate tanks, after a return to Ukraine this week. The former prime minister, who
Washington: The Biden administration said it’s time for Turkiye to ratify Finland and Sweden’s applications to join NATO, bluntly saying that holdout members of the alliance should quickly approve their memberships. The State Department said Secretary of State Antony Blinken had affirmed resolute support for Finland