Despite massive rearmament and evacuation plans, a major vulnerability remains — the Suwałki Gap, sometimes dubbed 'Nato’s ...

Review the day’s key developments in defense and global affairs with SOFREP’s Evening Brief – Friday, May 23, 2025.

With the ceremonial establishment of the permanent combat brigade in Lithuania, the German government under Chancellor ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Lithuania this week to inaugurate Berlin's brigade to help protect the eastern flank ...

Germany launches first permanent foreign military deployment since WWII, with 5,000 troops to be stationed in Lithuania by ...

BBC Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale speaks to Dovilė Šakalienė, Lithuania’s Defence Minister. The Baltic nation, along with its neighbours Latvia and Estonia, share a border with Russia, and have ...

NATO's members should aim to spend 5 percent of their GDP on defense in the coming years, ministers from Estonia, Latvia and ...

The Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded on X to the post of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz about the ...

The U.S. and European leaders are placing their hopes in the Vatican to engage Russia and Ukraine in peace talks, after ...

The parade was to mark the start of the deployment of Panzerbrigade 45 "Litauen" (PzBrig 45), the German Army's newest ...

The president has long pressed European allies to pay more for their own security. So they may redefine what qualifies as ...