NATO

NATO allies agree to cancel rival military exercises to be held next week as eastern Mediterranean tensions simmer.

Joe Biden is seen in Europe as offering a shift in US policy away from Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ approach.

Tensions reignite as Ankara sends exploration vessel back to waters claimed by Greece, Cyprus.

Turkey is set to carry out more tests of its controversial Russian S-400 anti-aircraft defence system.

Two US senators are demanding sanctions after reports Turkey has tested its Russian-built S-400 defence system.

Talk of the designation comes as other Gulf states normalise relations with Israel, a move Qatar has rejected.

Alliance members demand Moscow reveal Novichok programme to global chemical weapons agency as West-Russia tension brews.

Tensions running high over Turkey’s drilling activities, which Greece and Cyprus say violate their sovereignty.

The Belarusian president says the West hopes of turning his country into a ‘bridgehead against Russia’.

Athens and Ankara are at loggerheads as they compete for gas in the eastern Mediterranean.

Deal comes two weeks after the US announced it was withdrawing nearly 12,000 troops from Germany.

The department of defense says Washington expects to move its European military headquarters from Germany to Belgium.

Trump has said he will cut the number of US troops in Germany by 9,500, citing NATO members not meeting funding pledges.

The former journalist is accused of passing military secrets to an unnamed NATO power.