NATO and Angelina Jolie will work together to combat sexual violence in conflict areas. The actress, as a special envoy of the refugee organization UNHCR, is committed to protecting women in war situations. She talked about this with CEO Jens Stoltenberg at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.
The Turkish president Erdogan wants to extend his military operation along the Turkish-Syrian border if necessary to the east, all the way to the border with Iraq. He said on Friday that he wants to free the entire border from insurgents.
The US were aware of the invasion and the bombings that Turkey has carried out in Syria this weekend. That's what the US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said.
The theme of Iran will dominate a large part of the talks next week during a visit by the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, London, Paris, Warsaw and Davos.
The US Department of Defense has stated on Wednesday that it will not create a new army or a border troops in Syria. Earlier in the day, Turkey had fiercely responded to US plans to train fighters including Syrian Kurds for security in the country.
According to the first results of the presidential elections in the Czech Republic, Czech president Milos Zeman is leading. He has more than 40 percent of the votes, after approximately half of the constituencies had passed on the results. In the second place Jiri Drahos is behind with about a quarter of the voters. The remaining candidates are far behind, as appears after the close-up Saturday afternoon of the polling stations.
With the promise of NATO membership to Georgia and Ukraine in 2008, the alliance pushed Russia into a corner. It is not surprising that President Vladimir Putin drew a red line and adjusted his policy. That said former secretary general of NATO Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Sunday in Nieuwsuur.
Russia and Turkey have signed an agreement on the controversial supply of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles to Turkey. With the deal, which both countries have worked on for more than a year, 2.1 billion euros has been converted.
The Russian armed forces trained on an attack on the West during the military exercise Zapad 2017 earlier this year. The exercise included the Baltic states and air strikes were carried out on targets in, among others, Germany and possibly also the Netherlands.
He graduated from the London School of Economics and is considered the smart, Western-oriented variant of his father. Saif Gaddafi, the son of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi, wants to fight the anarchy in his country that has persisted since the disastrous NATO invasion of 2011.
The Heads of Government of the EU countries on Thursday did not want the recent decision to cooperate structurally in the field of defense to pass by without a festive ceremony. For a large panel, they took a comprehensive photograph at their summit in Brussels, in the presence of soldiers in a rich variety of uniforms.
The 28 EU leaders meet on Thursday and Friday in Brussels. They will give the green light Friday for talks with London about a transition period after the brexit in 2019 now that there is an agreement about the divorce. The British want the industry to have more time to adjust to the new situation.
Jens Stoltenberg remains NATO CEO until 30 September 2020. The 29 member states of the military alliance have extended their mandate by two years.
King Mihai, the last king of Romania, has died. The 96-year-old Mihai, who sat on the Romanian throne until the end of 1947, died in Switzerland, the Romanian court has announced.
North Korea's intercontinental missiles can not only reach the US, but also Europe, according to NATO.
For the first time in 65 years a Turkish head of state visits neighboring Greece. The press service of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed that on Saturday, according to the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.
General Ratko Mladic still feels like a natural winner and savior. He was not present at the notorious massacres around Srebrenica in July 1995 and, in his own words, he did not give a commission. He states that he did what he had to do as a commander in the fight against the enemy, who had attacked surrounding Serbian villages from the UN enclave.
The Turkish government recovered 40 soldiers after a very painful blunder from Norway who were engaged in a NATO exercise. In the exercise, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and founder of the Turkish state Mustafa Kemal Atatürk were identified as enemies and targets. NATO is currently conducting a major exercise in Stavanger, Norway.
Deniz Yücel, the German-Turkish journalist arrested in Ankara since February, accuses Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan of subjecting his country to 'a regime of fear.' Turkey slides down to fascism, he says.
Now that terrorist movement IS in Syria and Iraq has lost a lot of ground, the organization could be more attacking in the Middle East and beyond, including in Europe. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned there on Thursday at a meeting of the international anti-IS coalition in Brussels.
NATO strengthens the training mission in Afghanistan with some 3,000 men. The Netherlands does not deliver any additional soldiers, but six surgeons.
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The Taliban attack on a military camp in the Kandahar province in southeastern Afghanistan has killed around 40 soldiers, according to Afghan media. Two men men attacked stolen armored vehicles with explosives.
By a bomb bomb attack on a Danish convoy of the NATO Resolute Support Mission in the Afghan capital Kabul, five civilians were injured on Sunday. That reports the Afghan security services.
The biggest Russian military exercise in years begins Thursday. Thousands of men and women from Russia and Belarus participate in the eastern flank of NATO countries and in the Russian Exclave Kaliningrad in Zapad (West).
The behavior of North Korea is reckless. It causes a global threat and requires a broad response. Thus, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg expressed NATO's opinion.
A delegation of German parliamentarians visited the German soldiers at the base in Turkish Konya on Friday. The visit would take place in July but was held by Turkey because of tensions between countries.
The NATO member states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, will jointly protect their airspace. For example, jet-jet pilots can come into action in a terrorist threat with a hijacked plane over both countries.
NATO member Poland wants to pump 130 billion euros in its defense in the next fourteen years. The funds are mainly intended for the 'technical modernization' of the army, said Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz on Tuesday.
Belgium gets a 'cyberleger' with 200 experts to defend the country against digital attacks. This was confirmed by Minister of Defense Steven Vandeput. The computer experts are housed at the Belgian military intelligence service in Evere.
