By Will Conroy in Prague On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, it is clear the EU and Turkey must finally get serious about security cooperation. The argument was lately advanced in an assessment by Chatham House senior consulting fellow Galip Dalay.

Congress passed legislation that a president cannot unilaterally withdraw from NATO, setting up a major legal fight if Trump tries to pull the US out.

Trump’s demand that the Nato allies spend significantly more on defence is the opening salvo in a new era of transatlantic tensions.

NATO defence ministers will seek to reach a deal on new capability targets a few weeks before their leaders meet in The Hague on June 24-26, the chief of the bloc's Military Committee, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, told Reuters in an interview.

The future that Zelensky and many of his countrymen have in mind is one in which Russia is defeated. But in rallying the world to the fight, the implication Biden embedded in his own goals was that defending Ukraine against Russia is not the same as defeating Russia. So it is not surprising if that goal remains far from Zelensky’s reach.

Approval of U.S. leadership across NATO member countries was lower in 2024 than during the first three years of President Biden’s term in office, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. In

America stands hours away from the second Trumpian era. But around the world, it feels like it has already begun.

This partnership became much closer after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February of 2022. Washington realized that a Russian victory in Ukraine — meaning Moscow’s effective control of the country — would threaten core U.

Carter’s disarming friendliness and jokey manner belied a formidable grasp of the issues: he was almost always the smartest guy in the room.

President Joe Biden suffered his second-lowest approval rating of his administration just days ahead of his exit from the White House.

Germany, Poland, Britain, France and Italy will implement as swiftly as possible new NATO targets for weapons and troop numbers which the alliance is about to agree upon, German Defence Minister Pistorius pledged on Monday.

With even allies on tenterhooks and adversaries keeping a close eye, Trump has already launched a full-throated assault on “liberal internationalism,” a rules-based order that the US, ironically, has long wielded against its rivals for daring territorial expansion.