U.S. President Joe Biden told Russia’s Vladimir Putin during an hour-long call on Saturday that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would bring a decisive and swift response from the West.
The US president says he is putting together a plan to make it ‘very, very difficult’ for his Russian counterpart Putin to invade Ukraine.
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, a historic declaration that infuriated Turkey and further strained frayed ties between the two NATO allies.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Greece to enter talks over disputed eastern Mediterranean territorial claims or face the consequences.
"There is no doubt that Russia confrontation with NATO continues, and Moscow is aware of its participation in the Northern Beijing," Russian Ambassador to Iran Levan Dzhagaryan told ILNA in an exclusive interview.
Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper will be ready to update European allies on tensions with Iran as he heads to NATO headquarters this week during his inaugural trip as Pentagon chief, a senior U.S. official said.
Trident Juncture 18 will have more than 40,000 participants from more than 30 countries (All NATO countries, Sweden and Finland). It will be the largest NATO live exercise in years. The exercise will run an Article V scenario, based on the cornerstone of the Alliance: collective self-defense.
NATO forces are staying in Iraq at the country's request, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said during a rare visit on Monday to Baghdad, after parliament called for a foreign troop pullout.
Turkey on Thursday dismissed cautionary remarks from France about its military operation in northern Syria as “insults”, signaling continued strain between Ankara and its NATO allies over the incursion.
