In the short term, that may have few real consequences. Although insulting, the administration’s assessment of Europe’s weak ...

Besides China, North Korea is the country to watch. The Finnish footprint in the Indo-Pacific amounts to closer ties with NATO allies like Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia and also with ...

Japan has been shedding its strict pacifist stance, moving to obtain “counterstrike” capabilities and doubling military spending to the Nato standard of 2 per cent of gross domestic product.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Japan an "indispensable partner" in deterring growing Chinese assertiveness in the ...

The U.S. defense secretary sought to reassure its ally over security ties and vowed to speed up the creation of a joint ...

TOKYO — U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday praised American-Japanese friendship and trust while attending a ...

The United States has taken the first step toward upgrading its military operation in Japan to a joint force headquarters, ...

NATO on Wednesday clarified comments that Secretary-General Mark Rutte made earlier in the day, when he suggested that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania had died, even ...

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned Russia on Wednesday that the alliance would always stand by Poland or any other member and that its reaction to an attack would be "devastating." Rutte ...