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Tuesday's summit in Ankara highlights Erdoğan's push to force Middle East priorities onto NATO and leverage Israel's declining status to advance Turkey's strategic goals
After Merz said last month Iran was 'humiliating' the U.S., Trump hit back, ordering 5,000 U.S. troops to be withdrawn. Merz said the main issue was not troop numbers but 'unity of purpose' and that it's U.S. interest to have a strong European component of NATO
To Trump, NATO is of no use if it won't bend to his will. But he could be accelerating the collapse of American power
Internal Pentagon email outlines options for the United States to punish NATO allies it believes failed to support U.S. operations in the war with Iran, including suspending Spain from the alliance and reviewing Britain's claim to the Falkland Islands, a U.S. official told Reuters
Experts have long warned that remarks suggesting that the United States might not honor its NATO commitments could encourage Russia to test NATO members' readiness to enforce the alliance's Article 5, which states that an armed attack against one member state is an attack on all
As the U.S. seeks to assemble an international coalition to secure the Strait of Hormuz, the president said America no longer 'needs' or 'desires' NATO assistance: 'We never did'
Trump has said NATO faces a 'very bad' future should its member states fail to help, adding, 'We'll see if they help us. Because I've long said that we'll be there for them, but they won't be there for us'
Unlike last week's missile, which was downed outside Turkey, the latest entered Turkish airspace. Fragments fell between a key airbase to the west and a radar base to the east, both used by the U.S. and NATO. Turkey said 'necessary warnings' have been made to Iran
Turkey said 'that we reserve the right to respond to any hostile actions against our country' • The incident marks the first time that NATO member Turkey, Iran's neighbor to the northwest, has been drawn into the conflict between Iran and the U.S. and Israel
Israel is the only country whose weapons regularly encounter the Russian counterparts. That advantage, and possible looser restrictions if NATO weakens, could lead to more share surges for companies like Elbit Systems
President-elect Donald Trump won't immediately announce a withdrawal from the alliance, but the fracturing of NATO will begin with other steps by the U.S. – that could ultimately lead to a nuclear domino effect
No NATO member issued an announcement condemning Erdogan's threats; A top expert on Israel-Turkey says rhetorical clashes and Foreign Minister Israel Katz's tweets are 'worsening the crisis,' with no sign of Turkish restraint
Sweden, along with Finland, which joined NATO last year, both abandoned long-standing military neutrality that was a hallmark of the Nordic states' Cold War foreign policy after Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022
Israel cannot and should not stay in Gaza. But when Israel's allies ask: What's next? Netanyahu and his government of bloodthirsty messianic thugs have no answer. My plan is based on a NATO intervention force, and restarting two-state negotiations
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