Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and five like-minded lawmakers unveiled a new resolution on Syria Wednesday that calls for establishing safe zones inside Syria for civilians and support for arming the opposition against the regime of Bashar al Assad.

Former President George H.W. Bush will formally endorse Mitt Romney’s presidential bid on Thursday, becoming the latest establishment Republican to rally behind the GOP frontrunner

The claxon shrieks at Tampere Air Base in Finland. Four minutes later, two F-18 Hornet fighter jets from the Finnish Air Force take off. Their mission – to intercept an aircraft that is not complying with international air traffic regulations.

Obama’s assurance to Medvedev has raised a reasonable question: What “flexibility” will Obama be prepared to offer on missile defense, given that Putin will not be satisfied with anything short of scrapping the system or giving Russia a veto over its use.

The white paper specifically covers the military’s annual defense spending from 2013 to 2016. A large segment of the proposed annual 7 percent increase in the defense budget over those four years will be consumed by the F-35 acquisition program.

New EU rules currently being worked on to make banks take less risks and hold more capital may have "unintended consequences" on the eastern European economies where companies are more reliant on bank loans than in the West.

France is in talks with the United States and Britain on a possible release of strategic oil stocks to push fuel prices lower, French ministers said on Wednesday, four weeks before the country's presidential election.

Obama voiced doubt on Tuesday on the prospects for progress with Moscow on missile defense until after the November U.S. election as he staunchly defended remarks caught on camera the day before with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

The United States is seeking to build regional shields against ballistic missiles in both Asia and the Middle East akin to a controversial defense system in Europe, a senior Pentagon official disclosed on Monday.

The “NATO Corner” is the result of an initiative by the Swedish Defence College and the Anna Lindh Library, in collaboration with the NATO Multimedia Library in Brussels, Belgium.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday called for a written promise that US interceptors planned for deployment around Europe would not be aimed at Russian long-range nuclear missiles.

By the end of 2012, a rapid reaction team (RRT) capability of NATO cyber defence experts will be operational. The technical centre of the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability (NCIRC) is the nerve centre of the Alliance's fight against cyber crime.

European leaders have united to urge Germany to agree to boost the "big bazooka" bail-out fund this week amid fears that markets will turn against Spain, Ireland and Portugal without urgent support.

A very, very important point has been that from the moment Barack became President we upgraded the status of our relations from a strategic partnership to a model partnership, which he also placed a lot of importance on.

“The door is not closed for talks on missile defense,” Medvedev said at a Euro-Atlantic security forum in Moscow. “We still have time, but it is running out. . . .”

Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen met with Prime Minister Igor Lukšić of Montenegro on 21 March 2012 and discussed the growing cooperation between NATO and Montenegro and reform efforts in his country.

The U.S. has never provided Russia with secret information concerning the deployment of its missile shield elements in Europe, a high-ranking U.S. Department of State official told.

The five permanent U.N. Security Council member nations and Germany are set on April 13 to join Iran for a new round of discussions on the Middle Eastern nation's atomic activities, U.S. and European Union personnel told Israel on Tuesday.

As the Pentagon gets smaller, the U.S. military is going to need more help from its friends around the world. New legislation introduced by Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) is geared toward expanding that circle of friends, particularly in Eastern Europe.

Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman will meet with her counterparts from the P5+1 group in Brussels this week to prepare for upcoming negotiations with Iran, American and European diplomats tell Yahoo News.

European Union defense ministers endorsed on Thursday projects to develop joint air-to-air refueling capacities and field hospitals as part of a wider effort to share military resources in response to falling defense budgets.

Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said Thursday that the issue is a "litmus test" that shows whether the alliance is "ready to consider us an equal partner in defining the structure of international security."

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday (21 March) said the eurozone crisis is "not over" yet, but merely in one of its "various phases," even as investor confidence seems to be returning to troubled euro-countries.

The United States said on Wednesday it appears to be on track to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Afghanistan charting their future relations during or before a late May NATO summit.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to attend NATO's summit in Chicago due to his busy schedule at home, the alliance's top official said Wednesday.

NATO major-general Marcel Druart, addressing the European Parliament committee on security and defence, said NATO relied heavily on US military expertise on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.

Westerwelle has irked some of his EU colleagues by inviting only a select few to a dinner to discuss the 'future of Europe'.Invited were the foreign ministers of France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Poland, Portugal and Spain

A Russian military unit has arrived in Syria, according to Russian news reports, a development that a United Nations Security Council source told ABC News was "a bomb" certain to have serious repercussions.

NATO’s top commander said Wednesday that Montenegro will soon fulfill the military requirements to become a member of the Western alliance.

The Kremlin expressed willingness on Wednesday to allow NATO to use an airfield in the heart of European Russia, in a city best known as Lenin’s birthplace, as a transit center for moving troops and “nonlethal” cargo into Afghanistan.

The national contribution of the Netherlands will be to upgrade four air-defence frigates with extended long-range “Smart-L” radar systems.

The Obama administration is leaving open the possibility of giving Moscow certain secret data on U.S. interceptor missiles due to help protect Europe from any Iranian missile strike.

The best they can hope for is to limit the scale of the credit slowdown and ensure any withdrawal of western European banks from the region is orderly and doesn’t generate panic among other investors.

EU finance ministers on Tuesday (13 March) approved a controversial funding freeze on Hungary under the bloc's new deficit rules, but some countries, led by Austria, say it was a bit harsh after Spain obtained concessions.

U.S. President Obama and Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin during a telephone conversation on Friday agreed to maintain bilateral talks on missile defense -- an issue that has threatened to derail their nations' high-profile strategic "reset".

Finland's foreign minister has said EU countries are more divided on foreign policy now than before the Lisbon Treaty came along.

Eurozone finance ministers gave their final approval to a second bailout for Greece yesterday (12 March) and turned their attention on Spain, demanding that it adopt tougher deficit targets this year in order to get back on track in 2013.

Hollande repeated his call to pull French troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2012. He said he would maintain France’s nuclear deterrent and its seat on the UN Security Council and would work within NATO to ensure France’s independence of action.

On 8 March a ceremony at the NATO C3 Agency (NC3A) marked the award of the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability, Full Operational Capability contract.

On 5 March, NATO launched a new interactive web platform called WE-NATO.

NATO's special representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia has praised Georgia's cooperation with the alliance, continuing a recent pattern that suggests Georgia will take some sort of step forward at the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago.

The administration is continuing negotiations on a defense technical cooperation agreement with Moscow that could include limited classified data, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Brad Roberts told a House of Representatives' Armed Services subcommit

The Russian president is unlikely to attend a NATO summit in Chicago if the missile defense issue is not on its agenda, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday.

Less than half of Greece’s international creditors had agreed to a vital ?206bn (£172bn) bond swap on Wednesday night, leaving Athens dangerously exposed to default.

Turkey called for an “immediate opening” of humanitarian aid corridors in Syria as Russia rebuffed efforts to revive a United Nations Security Council condemnation of President Bashar al-Assad.

European stockmarkets plunged as Greece threatened its international creditors with a default.

President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been working hard to present a united front on Iran. But there is no disguising the fact that the two leaders remain sharply divided on the way forward.

Foreign relations spokeswoman Maja Kocjanic told press in Brussels: "The EU looks forward to working with the new Russian President in full support of Russia's modernisation agenda and trusts that the Russian leader is ready to take this forward."

The Dutch Freedom Party has called for a return to the Guilder, becoming the first political movement in the eurozone with a large popular base to opt for withdrawal from the single currency.

Vladimir Putin declared victory in Russia's presidential election, but his historic win was overshadowed by widespread reports of vote-rigging and ballot fraud

“Qatar is an important country and an important partner for NATO, ever since you joined our Istanbul Cooperation Initiative”, the Secretary General said. “And we look forward to an even stronger partnership in the future”.

Finland is set to buy Lockheed Martin cruise missiles for 178.5 million euros ($239 million), the country's defence ministry said, part of the Nordic country's efforts to boost its strike capability.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Tuesday acknowledged that the military alliance's negotiations with Russia on missile defense collaboration had come to a standstill.

Ministers released ?58bn (£48bn) of cash designated to smooth the ?206bn bond restructuring but withheld the remaining ?71.5bn allocated to help the Greek government.

Herman Van Rompuy, the Haiku-writing, self-styled "grey mouse" of European politics, has been elected to a second term as head of the European Council.

New measures such as a decision to deploy V-22s to Europe will help the military maintain its ability to respond quickly to a crisis in the region, the head of U.S. European Command told a congressional committee Wednesday.

The ship belongs to the Arleigh Burke-class in the United States Navy, the same class as the four destroyers already designated by the US to be deployed in Rota, Spain, as part of the Ballistic Missile Defence system.

Texeira's crime was to tell businessmen that Yanukovych broke election promises on improving the investment climate - a sore point amid widespread reports of high-level corruption.

As EU ambassadors begin leaving Minsk for home, both sides are already preparing fresh counter-measures against each other.

On which of “all these issues” — Syria, Iran, Eastern Europe, Georgia, human rights — is Obama ready to offer Putin yet more flexibility as soon as he gets past his last election?

NATO is in crisis because the European security market now runs a very real risk of losing its most important purveyor of military power: the United States.

We are all familiar with what is on the agenda for the Chicago Summit. The concept of Smart Defense will be a focal point, as it should be. As we have seen in Libya and Afghanistan.

The strategic partnership will make clear to the Taliban that it cannot wait us out and win on the battlefield, thus fostering real reconciliation on terms favorable to the Afghan government and to us.

When David Cameron meets with President Obama this week, their discussions about Syria, Afghanistan, and Iran will dominate headlines. Also important, though less high profile, is the two allies' preparations for NATO's May Chicago Summit.

The following five principles should guide U.S. policy toward NATO. Without these core principles, NATO will cease being the most capable security alliance the world has ever known.

If the West were to persist with the reset, it would mean de-emphasizing criticism of Putinism, while Putin himself escalates attacks on domestic opponents and the West, and thwarts a responsible international security agenda.

As a result, the ailing NATO-Russia relations are most likely to become the first major flashpoint in the renewed diplomatic hostility between Putin’s Russia and the West.

Europe’s road has now been chosen. With today's signing of the European Fiscal Stability Treaty who knows where the road will eventually lead. However, the inference is clear – fiscal union.

He painted the "black scenario" in a speech to MPs in Warsaw on Thursday (29 March), at a time when other EU leaders are saying the worst of the financial crisis is over.

A group of 36 foreign policy advisers to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney have sent an open to letter President Obama concerning the troubling assurances he gave to his Russian counterpart at a meeting in Seoul, South Korea.

Recently, President Obama announced a new focus in the US defence posture towards the Asia-Pacific region. Some are concerned this will take place at the expense of Europe and the transatlantic relationship. But I see it differently.

Finally, Obama doesn't seem at all aware of how inappropriate his whole line of discussion with Medvedev was.

What Obama intends to do with the “space” and “flexibility” of his second term isn’t clear exactly. But it certainly suggests a change of course on missile defense.

“On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space,” Obama can be heard telling Medvedev, apparently referring to incoming Russian president — and outgoing prime minister — Vladi­mi

President Dmitry Medvedev said the West was running out of time to secure Russia's consent to set up a U.S.-led missile defense shield in Europe and warned that continuing deadlock would prompt an unspecified Russian response.

A Russia-NATO summit, which was scheduled in May, is cancelled. However, the experts believe that this step is caused by disagreements of the parties concerned over the European missile defence system.

“Is it now the policy of NATO that we will stand by as rulers kill their people by the thousands, and our alliance won’t even discuss what we might do to help stop them?” McCain said. “This is shameful.”

"By 2017-2018 we must be fully prepared, fully armed," Medvedev said in broadcast remarks.

President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron reaffirmed their commitment to continue close cooperation on defense as the United States and United Kingdom build their Armed Forces for the future.

Russia and the United States have failed to narrow their differences over a planned U.S. missile shield and stand practically no chance of reaching a compromise at the NATO summit in Chicago in May, a top Russian official said Tuesday.

U.S. Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN) has introduced the NATO Enhancement Act, a bill to encourage further enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and to deepen U.S. strategic partnerships with NATO allies.

After a marathon seven-hour meeting, the International Swaps & Derivatives Association (ISDA) tonight dramatically declared a "credit event had occurred" and billions of euros of credit default insurance will have to be paid out.

The Greek government on Friday (9 March) said it has secured the voluntary participation of 85.8 percent of bondholders in a debt restructuring deal allowing it to avoid a messy default and to receive the second bail-out.

At the request of the Syrian National Council, the Free Syrian Army, and Local Coordinating Committees inside the country, the United States should lead an international effort to protect key population centers in Syria.

This fact, however, has not stopped Putin, either as prime minister or as candidate for his old job, from turning up the anti-Western rhetoric and positioning his government as standing up to the West.

European leaders are braced for the eurozone’s first ever sovereign default this week as Greece’s efforts to secure a ?206bn (£172bn) “voluntary” bond swap looks increasingly unlikely.

A two-day EU summit starts Thursday evening (1 March) in Brussels with EU leaders set to look at statistics showing where each country stands in terms of public deficit, labour taxes and retirement ages.

The NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen met in Washington, DC with Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta and Tom Donilon to discuss a range of issues related to the upcoming Alliance summit scheduled for 20 - 21 May in Chicago.