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FILE- President Donald Trump, center, stops to talk with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, left, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, as they attend a meeting of the North Atlantic Council during a summit of heads of state and government at NATO headquarters in Brussels on July 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool, File)

The success of a key NATO summit is in doubt after Spain rejects a big hike in defense spending

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Security ahead of the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

NATO summit brings tight security and disrupts life in The Hague

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Feb. 21, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Populist leader suggests ahead of NATO summit that Slovakia might be better off neutral

Associated Press

A Saildrone "Voyager", uncrewed surface vehicle (USV), is moored at the Koge Marina in Koge, eastern Denmark, Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/James Brooks)

Denmark tests unmanned robotic sailboat fleet with tensions high in the region

By James Brooks - Associated Press

Soldiers of Ukraine's 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade fire a Grad multiple rocket launcher towards Russian positions at the frontline in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

NATO considering including Ukraine’s defense contributions in updated defense spending target

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte arrives for a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

NATO chief Rutte calls for 400% increase in the alliance’s air and missile defense

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

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Letter to the editor: Five reasons U.S. should reengage with NATO

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, speaks with Norway's Defense Minister Tore Sandvik during a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Hegseth confident NATO members will agree to spending bump

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Soldiers of Ukraine's 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade fire a Grad multiple rocket launcher towards Russian positions at the frontline in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Ukraine’s backers meet to drum up arms and ammo; Pentagon chief Hegseth is absent for the first time

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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, speaks to a member of staff during a visit to the BAE Systems'Govan facility, in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday June 2, 2025. (Andy Buchanan, Pool Photo via AP)

Britain is getting a defense boost aimed at sending a message to Moscow, and to Trump

By Jill Lawless and Pan Pylas - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Russian and Ukrainian delegations attend talks at the Ciragan Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, June 2, 2025. (Ukrainian Ministry of Defense via AP)

Ukraine and Russia hold peace talks but make no breakthrough after major attacks

By Mehmet Guzel - Associated Press

Calin Georgescu, the winner of the first round of last year's annulled election, arrives at a prosecutor's office in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Calin Georgescu, front-runner in Romania’s canceled election, announces his withdrawal from politics

By Stephen McGrath - Associated Press

Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, second from right, speaks during a panel discussion with High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Christian Schmidt, left, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia Gordan Grlic-Radman, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Elmedin Konakovic and former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith as part of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Dayton, Ohio, on Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)

At commemoration of Dayton Peace Accords, NATO leader urges military spending to counter Russia

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Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis signs bilateral agreements next to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, during their meeting in Athens, on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greek prime minister: Meeting Trump’s 5% NATO spending goal will be difficult

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz holds a speech at a formal inauguration of a German brigade for NATO's eastern flank in Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visits Lithuania to oversee deployment of heavy combat unit

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Friedrich Merz delivers his first speech as German Chancellor in the parliament in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Chancellor Merz: Germany should have the biggest army in Europe

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Presidential candidate George Simion casts his vote next to his wife Ilinca in the second round of the country's presidential election redo in Mogosoaia, Romania, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romanians vote in a tense presidential runoff that pits nationalist against pro-EU centrist

By Stephen McGrath and Justin Spike - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy talks to journalists as he arrives at Esenboga airport in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy arrives in Turkey for peace talks, but Russia’s Putin is absent

By Mehmet Guzel, Hanna Argirova and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte talks to journalists as he arrives for NATO's informal meeting of foreign ministers in Antalya, southern Turkey, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

NATO weighs U.S. demand to massively hike defense spending as some struggle to meet the current goal

By Matthew Lee, Lorne Cook and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Dovile Sakaliene presents the draft Law "On the Denunciation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction" to the members of the Seimas in Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Lithuanian defense chief says NATO’s spending aim should be 5%

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times