NATO

Image of the Typhoon over Banbridge

NEW FOOTAGE: Mystery of fighter jet flying low over east Northern Ireland solved

Morning View

Editorial: Insulting use of name Malvinas reflects underlying Falklands tensions

Letters to editor

Letter: Thankfully, Ireland is shifting its obsolete stance on neutrality

Pictured are John Sowter, Justin Hicklin and Stuart Rowles from leading contractor Henry Brothers pictured at a ground-breaking event for a £22.5m scheme at Beacon Barracks in Staffordshire with representatives from NATO, 280 Signal Squadron and the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) (Chris Terry photography)

Northern Ireland construction firm starts work on £22.5m British Army project

Morning View

Editorial: The UK has long been a key ally for America

RAF aircraft are called upon to help defend Irish airspace in an emergency. An Irish government-appointed Commission on the Defence Forces said the Republic of Ireland ‘has no air defence capability of any significance'

Ian Paisley: Dublin should invest in its own defence to protect its sovereignty

Stena ferry

Stena Ferry: Police treating incident where two died as murder-suicide

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar debates the future of Europe with MEPs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, Jan.17, 2018. Varadkar's address is part of a series of debates involving European leaders on the "Future of Europe" with Varadkar the first leader to make such an address. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Letter: Commonwealth is a better club for Ireland to join than the Francophonie

Ministers attend the Commonwealth Trade Ministers meeting at Commonwealth Secretariat in London on Monday June 5. There are 56 countries in the organisation — some of them recent arrivals. How could that not be useful to Ireland? Picture: Carl Court/PA Wire

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Ireland should join the Commonwealth and Nato

Ireland's sole combat plane, the PC9 (inset: Steve Aiken)

Ex-nuke sub boss: Irish govt are freeloaders over military reliance on UK & NATO

Letters to editor

Letter: It is time to charge Ireland for its defence protection from Britain

NATO countries reach ‘agreement’ for Ukraine to become member state says secretary general

NATO allies ‘agree’ Ukraine will become member state

Letters to editor

Letter: If we pursue an end the war in Ireland so we should in Nato-Russia war

Finland joins Nato: What country is and isn’t a member state including Ireland, Sweden & Turkey

Finland joins NATO: What country is and isn’t a member state?

Morning View

Editorial: Corbyn was disastrous leader yet it's dysfunctional to bar him as MP

Russian jet intercepts and collides with US drone over Black Sea after dumping ‘environmentally unsound’ fuel (Credit: Getty Images)

Russian jet intercepts and collides with US drone over Black Sea
The US has condemned the incident involving Russia’s Su-27 fighter jet as ‘reckless’.

Russian jet intercepts and collides with US drone over Black Sea after dumping ‘environmentally unsound’ fuel (Credit: Getty Images)

Russian jet intercepts and collides with US drone over Black Sea

Defence Minister Ben Wallace swears live on BBC Breakfast

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, speaking with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky as they look at destroyed Russian military vehicles in Kyiv, Ukraine in November.
Mr Sunak is coming under pressure to make major investment in the British army in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Former NI officers affirm US view that cutbacks damaged UK army

NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

What are article 4 and 5 of the NATO Treaty?

US President Joe Biden speaks to media about the Democrats keeping the Senate before the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Cambodia. Picture: AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Missile which killed two in Poland ‘unlikely’ to have come from Russia

Letter to the editor

Ceasefire or drift to nuclear war

Putin addresses the nation

Putin warns West as he announces partial mobilisation for Russian citizens

Civilians hold rocks as they stand on a government-armoured vehicle near Changan Boulevard in Beijing on June 4, 1989. Over seven weeks in 1989, student-led pro-democracy protests centred on Tiananmen Square became China’s greatest political upheaval since the end of the Cultural Revolution

John Coulter: Internal revolution is key to defeating China

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects in Moscow yesterday, July 18. Western nations are principled about combatting him until war creates a cost of living crisis (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The cost of food and fuel, not shells and bullets, will decide the Ukraine War

Letter to the editor

Please give peace a chance in Ukraine

Liz Truss

Truss calls on West to overhaul its approach to international security
The crisis in Ukraine must be the catalyst for an overhaul to the West’s approach to international security, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said.

Letter to the editor

There is a context to the Ukraine situation of Nato aggression

Letter to the editor

While condemning Ukrainian suffering the West must look to its own misdeeds

Map of NATO expansion from Wikipedia (credit: Patrickneil + Glentamara)

Russia has a right to be concerned by NATO’s spread east towards Moscow

Destroyed buildings seen in the town of Bucha, close to the capital Kyiv, Ukraine.

Sandra Chapman on war in Ukraine

In this handout photo made from video released by the Russian Presidential Press Service, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to celebrate International Women's Day, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. International Women's Day on March 8 is an official holiday in Russia, where men traditionally give flowers and gifts to female relatives, friends and colleagues. (Russian Presidential Press Service via AP)

Putin may win some more battles – but he has already lost this war

Letter to the editor

Timidity is the best encouragement Putin could get to launch nuclear attack

'Europe would be in dire straits now if we had listened to Sinn Fein on NATO'

Letter to the editor

Let Edwin Poots join an international force and fight if he wants Nato in war

News Letter editorial

The sudden increased awareness of Nato, and support for it, is welcome

NLAW anti-tank missiles in Ukraine: Ex-NATO Colonel explains exactly how ‘built in Belfast’ weapon works against Russian tanks

NI-built missiles 'may have halted 40-mile-long Russian convoy'

A Ukranian soldier in a trench in the east of the country (photo: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

First News - What's going on in Ukraine

Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg at Nato Headquarters in Brussels to discuss Ukraine this month. The UK is a strong believer in Nato but some Northern Ireland parties fail to recognise Nato's role or in some cases campaign against it. Photo: Daniel Leal/PA Wire

Parties that condemn Ukraine invasion but fail to back Nato should be challenged

What is NATO? What does NATO stand for, member states, is Ukraine in NATO - and why is Ireland not in NATO?

Here's why Ireland is not in NATO

A building is left smoking after bombings on the eastern Ukraine town of Chuguiv.

Why is Russia invading Ukraine?

Letter to the editor

Beware the beating of the drums of war by Boris and the British media

The British army is ‘very unlikely’ to be directly involved in a Russia-Ukraine war, Liz Truss has said (image: Getty Images)

Direct UK military involvement in Ukraine ‘very unlikely’, Foreign Secretary say...

Is Russia invading Ukraine? Russia-Ukraine Conflict explained, will it lead to war - and what has Putin said?

Is Russia planning to invading Ukraine?

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, right, is greeted by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg prior to a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool)

Russian sea exercises not welcome: Ireland

Political strategist Alastair Campbell

Political strategist Alastair Campbell to speak at NI Chamber leadership event

Joe Biden and Donald Trump in an October 2020 US election debate in Tennessee. Biden’s team seemed worried about his memory during the campaign. Trump still exudes energy at 75, despite having had Covid. The media and Big Tech companies so hated Trump they did everything they could to ensure a Biden victory

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Joe Biden is ignorant, arrogant, stubborn and too damn old

News Letter editorial

A border that looked alarming on paper is all the worse in reality

Doug Beattie

Doug Beattie warns that NI Protocol obstructs ‘free movement’ of the military

Days before the end of his presidency, Donald Trump walks by supporters outside the White House on January 12, 2021 in Washington,DC ahead of a visit to Alamo, Texas to inspect his border wall

Trump brokered deals and avoided war but epitomised what’s wrong with West

Letter to the editor

Poppies offend you, terrorists offend me

Letter to the editor

Joe Biden will certainly need the same media scrutiny as Donald Trump ... when h...

Letter to the editor

International law is broken, day in, day out

An RUC man keeps guard at a checkpoint. Dr Dingley writes: "The security forces had to operate according to law, wearing recognisable uniforms, carrying arms openly, operating within a formal control system"

James Dingley: The quest for ‘balance’ in dealing with the legacy of the Trouble...

Letter to the editor

The Irish military might soon come under the control of Sinn Fein-led government