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During his two and a half years in the Trump Administration, Mike Pompeo has mostly managed to stay on President Donald Trumps good side, even as other senior officials have come and gone. But the Secretary of States relationship with the President is now bei…

Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential elections and helped Donald Trump win. We look back at history and ask: Will they do it again? Just the FAQs, USA TODAY WASHINGTON  An era in arms control ended Friday with the formal unraveling of the 1987 Interm…

Nato has said it will not deploy nuclear missiles in Europe to avoid a new arms race with Russia following the demise of a key arms control agreement.  The United States on Friday officially withdraw from the intermediate nuclear forces treaty, which was sig…

This potential could therefore considerably restrict NATOs operational freedom of action in a conflict, they wrote, and as a result, NATOs general ability to defend itself could be seriously compromised. How to deter Russia and balance its missile deployment…

The official pullout from the INF Treaty comes six months after the Trump administration previewed its intention to scrap the 1987 agreement, citing repeated Russian violations. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The departure of the U.S. from the Intermediate-…

“Russia bears sole responsibility for the demise of the treaty,” the NATO allies said, referring to the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) that kept nuclear weapons out of Europe and avoided short-notice attacks. NATO has agreed ways to deter Rus…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO has agreed ways to deter Russia from launching a new, land-based, medium-range missile, the alliance said on Friday, saying it would respond “in a measured and responsible way”. The United States formally withdrew from a landmark n…

Washington DC - The United States on Friday will formally withdraw from a landmark arms control treaty with Russia, claiming it undermines its national security interests. The move means that only one, soon-to-expire, arms control treaty between the US and R…

Five U.S. B-52 bombers were conducting a training mission on March 28 high over the Norwegian Sea in the Arctic Ocean. F-16 fighter jets from Norway were also aloft, part of joint NATO exercises involving 10,000 troops in northern Sweden. Unexpectedly, two Ru…

Turkey's defence minister says his country will set up a so-called "safe zone" in northern Syria, with or without the United States. The NATO allies will resume talks soon in an effort to reach an agreement, but divisions between them run deep. Turkey has s…