Summary: Formed in 1949 to counter Soviet expansion, NATO aimed to prevent Western Europe’s military overrun, focusing on maintaining air superiority, open sea communication lines to North ...

The meeting of the defence ministers from the EU's largest countries together with the deputy defence minister of Great Britain comes as Poland begins its rotating presidency of the EU and as Europe ...

adding that just as the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet-dominated military alliance, “collapsed within a year, world events can send the EU and Nato to history books”. There are low levels of public ...

spends more than 4% of GDP on defence as the largest contributor to Nato. Sir Keir and Mr Tusk recently met in Warsaw to start discussions on a separate, bilateral defence and security pact ...

NATO member Poland has repeatedly taken measures to safeguard its airspace and maintain readiness amid the conflict in Ukraine. Polish F-16 fighter jets are seen over Warsaw, Poland, on August 15 ...

Donald Tusk, who was hosting the prime minister for discussions on a UK-Polish defence pact in Warsaw, said it was his ... discuss a defence pact with the NATO ally - which Mr Tusk said he ...

Nato warplanes were scrambled overnight because of a major Russian ... skies as Russian strikes targeted areas of western Ukraine close to the Polish border, Warsaw’s military said on Wednesday ...

The U.K. and Poland are working on a defense treaty that will cover everything from fending off Russia to tackling illegal immigration and safeguarding energy supplies, Prime Minister Keir Starmer ...

Instead, West Germany was accepted into NATO and armed as part of the alliance. As a direct response, the Warsaw Pact was formed on May 14, 1955. One of the first motions passed was the rearming ...

As a key NATO member, Warsaw has been a strong voice for Kyiv and NATO’s future on the Eastern flank. It is one of Ukraine’s key allies in defence and humanitarian aid, not least as its ...