The mood was festive in the packed East Room of the White House as President Joe Biden signed the instruments of ratification for the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO. The two High North nations had up until months ago remained unaligned and fiercely ...
Turkey has agreed to allow Sweden and Finland to join NATO after early negotiations at the Madrid NATO Summit. The accession of Finland and Sweden, who formally applied to join NATO in May, had been an open question going into the summit after Turkey resisted. ...
President Joe Biden ordered new military forces to NATO's eastern flank Feb. 22 and began to ratchet up sanctions on Russia. The decisions followed Russian President Vladimir Putin's recognizing the independence of two separatist-controlled areas of southeastern Ukraine and sending tanks and troops across the ...