The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and pressure from Trump, helped drive a massive boost in global military spending last year, a Swedish think tank says.

BRUSSELS, April 25. /TASS/. NATO member states have spent more than $1.3 trillion on defense needs in 2024, allocating $123 billion more than in 2023, the North Atlantic Alliance stated in its ...

NATO chief Mark Rutte has proposed alliance members boost defence spending to 3.5% of GDP and commit a further 1.5% to ...

Sánchez said the government will raise defense spending by 10.5 billion euros ($12 billion) to reach NATO’s target of 2% of ...

A Spanish tank is pictured along with allied military vehicles during a NATO exercise near Gniew, Poland, in 2024. (Edouard Bocquet/NATO) THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Spain will rapidly increase its ...

President Trump has long been a critic of NATO and believes Europe does not contribute enough to its own defense. NATO ...

An annual report on global military spending shows that Ukraine is spending more of its GDP on defense than any other country ...

Trump is particularly aggravated with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO — the world's biggest military alliance, which comprises 32 countries ... defense spending, and that is ...

Sánchez said his plan to boost defense spending would not go through Parliament. Besides Spain, seven of NATO's 32 member countries still spend less than 2% of GDP on their defense budgets.