On July 3 and 4, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský and Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže met in Prague to discuss ...

NATO members have agreed to a new defense spending goal of 5% of each country’s economic output by 2035, more than doubling the previous figure of 2%. It’s an ambitious timeline that ...

Roughly 100 Edmonton soldiers departed for Europe Sunday to join the Multinational Brigade Latvia’s Operation Reassurance where they’ll stay for the next six months as part of the biggest ...

Fresh group of Edmonton soldiers depart for Latvia "We're just super excited to finally get boots on the ground because we have been looking forward to this for such a long time." ...

Sgt. Marc-Andre Lussier hugs his three-year-old daughter Ella as he prepares to depart with the Op Reassurance Battle Group to Latvia led by the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) on ...

Canadian soldiers are in Latvia as part of the Canadian-led NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in July 2023 that, as part of a major commitment to ...

Troops from member countries train for shoulder-to-shoulder fighting, while disputes over spending and additional members plague the alliance.

Ottawa will procure multiple new air defence systems, including a Saab portable guided missile, to support a multi-national NATO force based in Latvia with improved protection against lethally ...

Canada will deploy four military helicopters to a NATO force in Latvia next year, the defense ministry said on Friday, marking the first time in 20 years that Ottawa has based tactical aviation ...

The vertical-lift aircraft, along with pilots and support crew, will be assigned to the NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) battle group stationed in Latvia. “Canada is making a meaningful ...

This battle group here in Camp Ādaži is proof of that, and the work we’re doing is incredibly valuable to NATO’s future.” Trudeau explicitly framed his announcement as a response to “the Kremlin’s ...