Special forces from Spain land on a beach from a military helicopter as they participate in the Steadfast Dart 2025 exercise, ...

NEA ANCHIALOS, Greece (AP) — NATO is testing its ability to rapidly deploy across eastern Europe — without direct U.S.

Luke Akehurst, Labour MP for North Durham, questions whether homeland security will be a key focus of the strategic defence ...

NATO and BRICS are two major international groups. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) is a military alliance of 32 countries, mostly from North America and Europe. It was formed in 1949 to ...

The Conservative MP Mark Pritchard had some fun with this, asking the minister, Luke Pollard ... but now some Nato members states are setting better examples – Poland spends more than ...

Labour's own MPs have warned Sir Keir Starmer that a failure to boost military spending could put the "special relationship" with the US at risk. Starmer is expected to delay bringing defence spending ...

Labour has yet to provide a firm timeline over raising UK defence spending to 2.5% of GDP at a time when Donald Trump is pressuring NATO members to double that.

Defence minister Luke Pollard insisted that Labour remains ... publicly whether the US should be spending ‘anything’ on Nato, saying: ‘We’re protecting them. They’re not protecting ...

Current UK defence spending is unlikely to cover a Ukraine peacekeeping mission for more than a year with the Armed Forces lacking soldiers, tanks, ammunition and naval assets ...

A defence minister has declined to outline the timetable for when the Government will meet its “cast-iron commitment” to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP.

Luke Pollard said MPs will have to wait until the ... The UK spent 2.3% of its GDP on defence in 2024, according to the latest Nato estimates. Ms Maguire said the commitment to increasing defence ...

No10 and defence ministers refused to repeat the party's election manifesto pledge that funding would increase to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2029.