Islamic State jihadists move within eight miles of the Iraqi capital, sparking calls for America to return to the country.

Russia has 1,643 nuclear missiles ready to launch – one more than the US – according to an official State Department report. Both countries have been upgrading their active nuclear arsenals since the outbreak of the Ukrainian conflict.

The Syrian border town of Kobane will fall to terrorists unless those fighting it are given heavy weapons and extra fighters.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met in Ankara and said that he came to hear Turkey’s views and concerns on the situation in the region.

The UK’s Lord Hill, Commissioner-nominee for Financial Services, was yesterday approved by MEPs on the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs.

The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Estonia for Javelin missiles and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of $55 million.

Serbia has defied EU calls to change the terms of its gas pipeline deal with Russia, but the European Energy Community says it “cannot” join the EU unless it does so.

The European Commission is not recommending any fresh steps on Western Balkan enlargement in the next 12 months, but wants to open two extra “chapters” in Turkey talks.

Hungarian and US soldiers took part in a joint military exercise Thursday, simulating "everyday" battle situations in Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.

Kurdish protesters demand that Ankara does more to save Syrian town from jihadist advance.

'We are reaching the end game in Europe. If they don’t launch real QE soon, the consequences are too awful to contemplate,' warns RBS.

The U.S. air campaign is failing to achieve the minimal aim of stopping the expansion of the Islamic State — much less “degrading” and “destroying” it.

For the Euro to be fixed its power-brokers need to realise that the Euro itself is the problem. If not the Euro could destroy Europe.

Therefore, if freedom is to be defended Stoltenberg’s first challenge will be to shift the Alliance beyond its false comfort zone.

It may seem unusual to criticize a strategy you have both suggested and endorse, and it is important to stress from the outset that President Obama has almost certainly chosen a strategy that is the "best game in town".

As we head deeper into our version of the 1930s, we may be quite shocked, just as our forebears were, at how quickly things fall apart.

Maybe, just maybe, a new reality is slowly dawning. For that reason NATO’s twenty-first century may just have started in Wales and for that reason alone the Summit is to be commended.

Putin is placing a cynical bet that he can invade Ukraine just one week before a NATO summit — and that NATO will do nothing to stop him. The alliance must prove him wrong.

Caught off guard by the crisis in Ukraine, NATO plans to create a “spearhead” rapid deployment force and a “more visible” presence in Eastern Europe to assuage concerns about Russian intentions.

France’s finance minister sends tremors through European capitals with a defiant warning that his country would no longer try to meet deficit targets.