For this amount alone, the country has spent 4% of its GDP on the defense industry Claiming fourth place on the list of NATO countries with the largest armed forces is France, housing 200,000 active ...

Germany and the US top the list of those delaying Kiev's admission to the bloc BRUSSELS, October 24. /TASS/. Some NATO countries, including the US and Germany, are hesitant to meet Ukrainian ...

The official added that ministers will likely address Russia’s hostile actions against NATO countries and emphasize that such actions will not deter the Alliance from continuing its support for ...

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said in June that Putin "might even attack a NATO country" and that Europe "must be ready for war by 2029." In March, NATO conducted the Nordic Response ...

The top official in the U.S.-led NATO alliance issued a direct appeal Thursday to residents of countries in the bloc, asking them to demand big increases in defense spending in the face of Russia ...

Cyprus has become “the only state outside Nato and its Partnership for Peace to be included in this list of countries”, Letymbiotis said. This development, he added, “is incorporated in the ...

German defence minister Boris Pistorius has long argued for higher defence spending, warning that Russia would be in a position to attack a Nato country by 2029. “They haven’t switched to a wa ...

The country has shown itself to be a good business partner and a proven ally by being NATO's biggest defence spender in terms of GDP, and a heavy purchaser of U.S. defence equipment, Kosiniak ...