Sweden

In addition to access control measures, the government is accelerating legislation to allow schools to install surveillance cameras without prior approval. School staff may also be granted the authority to search students' bags in an effort to enhance safety

Police said “around 10 people” were killed, in what has been called the worst mass shooting in the history of Sweden. The suspected perpetrator is among the dead.

In a recent resolution to a protracted diplomatic saga, Turkey has agreed to acquire F-16s, while Sweden is set to join NATO and Greece will receive F-35s. To Vima spoke with Henri J. Barkey, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, to assess the implications of this complex deal.

The give-and-take between the U.S. and Turkey is confirmed: the former played the card of fighter jets, and Turkey played the card of approving or not NATO's enlargement with the Scandinavian country

Publication of a relevant protocol in the official gazette ends 20 months of foot-dragging on the part of Ankara

In an interview, Jeff Flake said that once the formal ratification document is received in Washington, the U.S. State Department would promptly send Congress notification of the $20 billion F-16s sale

Hungary and Viktor Orban have now become the center of attention.

Out of 346 deputies voting, 287 voted in favor and 55 against, with four lawmakers abstaining.

The intricate dance between Washington, Athens, and Ankara around the sale of new fighter jets and Sweden’s potential NATO membership remain a complex challenge for American diplomacy. While the situation may seem like a modern-day Gordian knot, it seems unlikely that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will take a page out of Alexander the Great’s […]

The visit to Turkey on Saturday reportedly aims to overcome Ankara’s “foot-dragging” over ratification of Sweden’s NATO accession

Members of the Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee finally voted to allow the Nordic country to join the Alliance, Turkish media reported