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US, Belarus army chiefs speak to avoid drill 'miscalculation': Pentagon
Feb 10, 2022 (AFP)
US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley spoke with General Staff of the Armed Forces Major General Viktor Gulevich of Belarus to discuss "issues of concern...
Denmark plans to allow US troops on its soil
Feb 10, 2022 (AFP)
The Scandinavian country has become one of Washington's closest European allies in the past two decades, having fought alongside the US in Iraq. "The United Sta...
US B-52 bombers arrive in Britain for exercises
Feb 10, 2022 (AFP)
The North Dakota-based aircraft, support equipment, and personnel touched down at a Royal Air Force base 150 kilometers (90 miles) west of London, in Fairford, ...
UK readies 1,000 more troops as Johnson visits NATO, Poland
Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)
His trip Thursday coincides with crisis talks in Moscow between British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and her counterpart Sergei Lavrov, as the UK and other US-le...
Russian forces around Ukraine now 'north of 100,000': Pentagon
Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)
"We have continued to see even over the last 24 hours additional capabilities flow from elsewhere in Russia to that border with Ukraine and Belarus," Pentagon s...
Hopes rise as efforts intensify to defuse Ukraine tensions
Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)
In the face of the worst stand-off between Russia and the West since the Cold War, diplomatic action has kicked into high gear, taking French President Emmanuel...
Johnson to visit Poland on Thursday after troop pledge
Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)
"The prime minister is coming tomorrow," spokesman Lukasz Jasina told AFP on Wednesday when asked about Johnson's plans. Jasina said Johnson would meet with his...
Canada mulling reinforcements to eastern Europe: minister
Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)
"We are examining options to reinforce in Eastern Europe as a whole," Anand said. The minister visited the Adazi base where Canada head up a NATO battle group. ...
Blinken heads to Asia as Ukraine crisis boils
Feb 08, 2022 (AFP)
Blinken will spend three days in Melbourne for a meeting with foreign ministers of the Quad, the informal US-Japan-India-Australia grouping that Washington hope...
UK to send 350 more troops to Polish border
Feb 07, 2022 (AFP)
Wallace said the troops would strengthen a contingent of 100 British soldiers already there and would be a "bilateral deployment to show that we can work togeth...
NATO practices for winter combat on Russia's doorstep
Feb 07, 2022 (AFP)
The "Winter Camp" exercise in northeast Estonia, just 100 kilometres (62 miles) from the Russian border, included some 1,300 British, Estonian and French troops...
More US troops land in Poland to deter 'war aims': general
Feb 06, 2022 (AFP)
Paratroopers from the US army's 82nd Airborne Division based in Fort Bragg in the United States landed at around 1300 GMT at Rzeszow Airport in southeast Poland...
After eight years of war, Ukraine's army a tougher prospect
Feb 04, 2022 (AFP)
Kyiv had just lost the Crimean peninsula to Moscow without a shot being fired and its regular forces -- eaten away by years of neglect and corruption -- couldn'...
Russia wins Chinese backing in showdown over Ukraine
Feb 04, 2022 (AFP)
The demand for NATO to stop expanding came after a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing that saw Putin...
Stoltenberg to leave NATO after battle to keep US in and Russia out
Feb 04, 2022 (AFP)
From December, the 62-year-old economist will again wrestle with balance sheets in his new role as head of Norway's central bank, after eight years of high inte...
Russia, China hit out at US influence in Europe and Asia
Feb 04, 2022 (AFP)
Putin and Xi met in Beijing ahead of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, as both their countries face increasing criticism from Washington. A docu...
Europe to fore in Ukraine crisis as US warns of Russian plot
Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)
The shock claim from the US came as Russia accused Washington of "escalating tensions" by sending 3,000 troops to eastern Europe to counter a massive build-up o...
US claims evidence of Moscow plan for 'false flag' Ukrainian attack
Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)
"We do have information that the Russians are likely to want to fabricate a pretext for an invasion," said Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby. He told reporters t...
Kremlin urges US to 'stop escalating tensions'
Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)
"We are constantly urging our American partners to stop escalating tensions on the European continent," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "Unfortu...
Xi to meet Putin as tensions rise with West
Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)
Xi has not left China since January 2020, when the country was grappling with its initial Covid-19 outbreak and locked down the central city of Wuhan where the ...
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