Clad in military fatigues and armed with rifles loaded with blank cartridges, members of the Lithuanian Rifleman’s Union, or LRU, a state-funded paramilitary group, spent several days training to repel a possible enemy attack.

The ongoing Ukraine war has brought NATO expansion into focus, with Europe weighing the implications. Different countries have varying views on the alliance’s growth and its impact on regional security.

NATO's eastward expansion is a "fair" concern for Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump's Special Envoy Keith Kellogg said in an interview with ABC News on May 29. As one of the conditions for ending the full-scale war against ...

NATO's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced earlier in the week that the Western military organization would increase the number of troops within its rapid response force — which comprises land, air, sea and special forces units that are capable of being deployed quickly — to 300,000 from about 40,000 personnel.

So the words ‘rock’ and ‘hard place’ come to mind. As one commentary sympathetic to Ukraine put it: “For all the public bravado, there has been a private admission in some parts of the Ukrainian elite that a deal may need to be done sooner rather than later,

NATO is not holding any active discussions on Russia's demand that the alliance halt its eastward expansion, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty wrote, citing several undisclosed NATO officials and diplomats. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the NATO ...

Author argues that he oversaw the strengthening of Nato, achieving greater expenditure on defence among member states