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As authorities tighten security, this is where Europe is most at risk from Iranian drones, missiles, cyberattacks and assassinations. Listen A UK Ministry of Defence handout of an RAF F-35B Typhoon preparing for operations from Akrotiri, Cyprus. Tehran has threatened its retaliation for action in the Middle East could be attacks on European soil. | Sgt Lee Goddard/MoD Crown Copyright via Getty…

February 4, 2026 By: Peter Suciu Around 5,000 German troops, along with 105 Leopard 2A8 tanks, will soon be permanently stationed along Lithuania’s southeastern border with Russian-allied Belarus. The Bundeswehr continues its build-up of forces in the Baltics—the first permanent foreign deployment of German military personnel since the end of World War II. The recent move comes as part of a…

A new wargame simulating a Russian incursion into Lithuania, carried out by ex-Nato and German officials, concluded that Moscow would “achieve most of its goals” within days. The exercise envisaged a scenario where the Kremlin used bogus claims of a “humanitarian crisis” in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to seize the Lithuanian city of Marijampole to its east, a key conurbation through which…

The top global risks of 2026 show an ever more unstable world. January 2, 2026, 6:00 AM By Robert A. Manning, a distinguished fellow with the Strategic Foresight Hub at the Stimson Center, where he works on its global foresight and China programs, and Mathew Burrows, a counselor to the Executive Office and distinguished fellow in the Strategic Foresight Hub, both at the Stimson Center. A photo…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday his country is in a full-scale war with the U.S., Israel and Europe ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s meeting Monday with U.S. President Donald Trump. Pezeshkian said in an interview published on the website of the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday that the war is worse than Iran’s…

As Trump tries to negotiate Ukraine peace deal, European leaders sound alarm that Russia could target their countries next By  Max Colchester  and Bertrand Benoit Updated Dec. 15, 2025 11:16 pm ET German military recruits during an exercise in November. ina fassbender/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Quick Summary European officials are increasingly warning their citizens to prepare for…

01 December 2025 06:49 (UTC +04:00) The revenues of the 100 largest arms manufacturers reached a record high of $679 billion last year, an increase of 5.9% compared to 2023, says the latest report on the global arms trade by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), APA eeports. The report said that the total revenues of the 100 largest arms manufacturers have increased…

The European Union is a major economic and political entity. Its purpose and longstanding ambition has been the expansion—ideally to encompass all countries of the European continent—as well as its political and constitutional integration; in other words, the formation of a large and functional federation of states. Over the years, the Union has drifted into a state of inertia, failing to…

“Significant barriers to effective military mobility in the EU persist,” says a communication due to be announced on Wednesday. The EU and NATO are scrambling to make it easier to shift troops, weapons, ammunition and fuel from Western Europe to the front lines of a potential conflict with Russia in the east. | Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images November 18, 2025 4:49 pm CETBy Martina…

29.09.202514:05 Η ηγεσία του στρατού πιέζουν τις εταιρείες άμυνας να επιταχύνουν και να αυξήσουν τη συναρμολόγηση 12 κρίσιμων όπλων Το Πεντάγωνο ανησυχεί για τα χαμηλά αποθέματα όπλων που θα έχουν οι ΗΠΑ σε περίπτωση μιας σύγκρουσης με την Κίνα και προτρέπει τους προμηθευτές πυραύλων του να διπλασιάσουν ή και να τετραπλασιάσουν τους ρυθμούς παραγωγής, δίνοντας μάλιστα ένα εξαιρετικά σφιχτό…

Russia could be able to attack NATO territory by 2029, warn German Defense Minister Pistorius and senior military officials. But where does this forecast come from and what information is it based on? By Florian Flade, WDR It is June 5, 2024. The government questioning will take place in the plenary hall of the German Bundestag. At some point, it will be the turn of Defense Minister Boris…

The fighting in Ukraine is only part of Russia’s wider war against the continent as a whole. It’s high time to recognize this reality and act accordingly. The only way Moscow can now achieve its objectives is by weakening Europe’s support for Ukraine and exploiting divisions within and among NATO nations. | Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images From Across the PondSeptember 25,…

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What we are living through today—both as a nation and as Europe, or rather as a Union—is marked by tragic uncertainty and insecurity. We witness the impending march of the new barbarians, their seemingly inevitable triumph over the last remaining free societies, and we find ourselves stunned into paralysis. Across the West, leaders drift toward the political extremes—not to defend the values…

By Alan Charlish, Lidia Kelly and Barbara ErlingSeptember 11, 202512:41 AM GMT+3Updated September 11, 2025 WARSAW/WYRYKI-WOLA, Poland, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Poland shot down suspected Russian drones in its airspace on Wednesday with the backing of aircraft from its NATO allies, the first time a member of the Western military alliance is known to have fired shots during Russia’s war in…

By Artur Weigandt Vladimir Putin (left) and Donald Trump at their meeting in Alaska in mid-AugustSource: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque The Russian ex-diplomat and Putin critic Boris Bondarev knows the Moscow regime from the inside. He accuses the Europeans, but also US President Trump, of gullibility towards the Kremlin chief. He always succeeds in leading the West around by the nose. DisplayBoris…