While most of the attention was focused on the $841.4 billion the Pentagon will receive from the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, and Sen. Tim Kaine, Virginia Democrat, inserted a provision that would prevent presidents from unilaterally pulling out of NATO.
NATO-hopeful Sweden is focused on getting its national security house in order as it waits for Turkey and Hungary, the last holdouts, to sign off on its joining the Western military alliance, Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson told a Washington audience Tuesday.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday said the alliance must focus on climate change even as it contends with fortifying its defenses against aggression from the Kremlin.
NATO member Finland on Wednesday closed its last remaining border crossing with Russia after the government decided to seal the entire border with its eastern neighbor amid rising political tensions.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will return this week to the Middle East as the U.S. hopes to find a way to extend a cease-fire in Gaza and get more hostages released, the State Department said Monday. It will be his third trip to the region since Israel's war with Hamas began last month.