Sweden and the Netherlands say they intend to increase defense spending to 5% of their gross domestic product in line with ...

Sweden will reach a new NATO spending target of 5% of the country's GDP, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on ...

Sweden has announced it will increase its defense spending to 5% of the country’s GDP, meeting a new NATO target.

As a result, leaders of NATO countries meeting later this month in The Hague almost certainly will agree to boost their ...

Sweden officially joined NATO on Thursday after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine spurred it to rethink its defense policy and abandon its long held position of neutrality. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf ...

Finland and Sweden are poised to end decades of neutrality by joining NATO, a dramatic evolution in European security and geopolitics sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The two Nordic ...

NATO is more optimistic that Turkey will approve Sweden’s membership before or soon after an alliance summit next month. By Steven Erlanger BRUSSELS — As optimism that Sweden will soon be able ...

Turkish legislators on Tuesday endorsed Sweden's membership in NATO, lifting a major hurdle on the previously nonaligned country's entry into the military alliance. The legislators ratified Sweden ...

WASHINGTON — Sweden on Thursday formally joined NATO as the 32nd member of the transatlantic military alliance, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality as concerns about Russian ...

With the addition of Sweden to NATO, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia finds himself facing an enlarged and motivated alliance. By Steven Erlanger Sweden formally joined NATO on Thursday ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Sweden's membership of NATO took a big step forward on Monday after Turkey agreed to remove one of the last major roadblocks in return for help in reviving Turkey's own ...