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NATO Watch News Briefs cover a range of NATO-related news items from around the world (below). This syndicated news feed is free. Feeds allow you to stay up to date with the latest news and features by adding the feed address to a news reader programme, or to your own website. There are various ways to subscribe, including:
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg named a panel of 10 experts on 31 March to help show that the alliance is not brain dead—as French President Emmanuel Macron declared in a controversial interview with The Economist last autumn.
NATO is scaling down military exercises in Europe to curb the spread of the coronavirus, and warns of “severe consequences” for member states economies.
NATO’s biggest military exercise for over 25 years ‘Defender Europe 20’ is getting underway with 20,000 US troops due to participate in the United States’s largest deployment to Europe in over quarter of a century.
NATO has agreed to “contribute more to regional stability” in the Middle East a day after Iran struck two Iraqi military bases housing US and coalition troops.
NATO Watch News Briefs cover a range of NATO-related news items from around the world (below). This syndicated news feed is free. Feeds allow you to stay up to date with the latest news and features by adding the feed address to a news reader programme, or to your own website. There are various ways to subscribe, including:
NATO sets up expert group to find its missing brain
4 April 2020
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg named a panel of 10 experts on 31 March to help show that the alliance is not brain dead—as French President Emmanuel Macron declared in a controversial interview with The Economist last autumn.
North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO
28 March 2020
NATO scales back exercises due to coronavirus
22 March 2020
NATO is scaling down military exercises in Europe to curb the spread of the coronavirus, and warns of “severe consequences” for member states economies.
NATO military exercise, Defender Europe 20, threatened by coronavirus; China comes to the aid of Italy
NATO’s biggest military exercise for over 25 years ‘Defender Europe 20’ is getting underway with 20,000 US troops due to participate in the United States’s largest deployment to Europe in over quarter of a century.
NATO Secretary General seeks to ‘scale-up’ training role in Iraq
24 January 2020
Expand NATO to Middle East and rename it NATO-ME, says Trump
10 January 2020
NATO agrees to do more in 'fight against international terrorism' after Trump phone call
9 January 2020
NATO has agreed to “contribute more to regional stability” in the Middle East a day after Iran struck two Iraqi military bases housing US and coalition troops.
Canadian-led NATO training mission in Iraq suspended amid security concerns after Soleimani assassination
5 January 2020
While Macron depicts the “brain death” of NATO, Germany agrees to hit alliance spending target by 2031
11 November 2019
German defence minister proposes to NATO allies a security zone for Syria-Turkey border
23 October 2019
While the alliance has no mission in Syria, it's been dragged into the debate over what's happening on the ground there.