Sweden's submarines are small and quiet, perfect for the Baltic Sea that many NATO allies share with Russia.

NATO countries sharing the strategically important Baltic Sea with Russia have boosted their presence there and are beefing ...

The country's admission to NATO boosted the alliance's maritime presence, particularly in the Baltic Sea, which is flanked by countries including Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia ...

Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland and is strategically important both to NATO and the Russians. It is a key trade and telecommunications route. Jonson, Sweden's defense minister, described the sea as ...

Dynamic Employment of Forces to Europe for NATO Deterrence and Enhanced Readiness, DEFENDER 25, is a large-scale U.S. Army exercise that tests how ...

Trump said, You don't start a war against a country 20 times bigger and then expect missiles. Referring to the Sumy attack, ...

Latvia and Lithuania became members in 2004. During this time, successor states of Yugoslavia, which were not part of the USSR, but under Soviet influence, also broke away and moved towards NATO.

Finland joined NATO in 2023 after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, ending, together with Sweden, a long-held position of neutrality in favor of the protection afforded by the ...

RIGA - Regardless of distance, we are in the same boat, and geopolitical challenges are too great to be addressed individually, Foreign Minister Baiba Braze (New Unity) said at a meeting of NATO ...