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Byline: Isabelle Khurshudyan, Alex Horton, Emily Rauhala, Siobhán O'Grady KYIV - Long-awaited F-16 fighter jets are set to be flying in Ukraine within weeks, but Ukrainian and Western officials now [...]

Byline: Rick Noack, Victoria Bisset, Emily Rauhala PARIS - On the eve of the Paris Olympic Games, France was hit by arson attacks on its high speed rail network, fraying [...]

Byline: William Booth, Emily Rauhala, Karla Adam WOODSTOCK, England - The setting was a super-posh country estate, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, just outside Oxford. Forty-six leaders from Europe showed [...]

Byline: Michael Birnbaum, Emily Rauhala, Missy Ryan, John Hudson Former president Donald Trump doesn't have a seat at the table as NATO leaders gather this week in Washington, but he [...]

Byline: Souad Mekhennet, Catherine Belton, Emily Rauhala, Shane Harris Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the month a NATO meeting in Prague took place. It was in May, [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan, Michael Birnbaum, Emily Rauhala, Ellen Nakashima NATO nations will provide Ukraine urgently needed air-defense systems, President Biden said Tuesday, vowing aid to shield against deadly Russian attacks [...]

Byline: Rick Noack, Annabelle Timsit, Emily Rauhala, Elie Petit PARIS - France's left-wing New Popular Front alliance and President Emmanuel Macron's centrist coalition thwarted a far-right victory in legislative elections [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala This week's NATO summit in Washington was supposed to be a celebration. Seventy-five years after its founding, the alliance is bigger and more relevant than it's been [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Mary Ilyushina BRUSSELS - Fresh off his first visit to Ukraine since Russia invaded, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrived in Moscow on Friday to meet Russian [...]

Byline: Rick Noack, Emily Rauhala, Annabelle Timsit, Anthony Faiola PARIS - French voters appeared to have boosted the prospects of the far right while potentially shattering the centrist alliance of [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Beatriz Ríos BRUSSELS - Hungary has spent the past few years railing against the European Union. For the next six months, Hungary will help lead it - [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala BRUSSELS - Mark Rutte, the longtime prime minister of the Netherlands, looks set to replace Jens Stoltenberg as NATO secretary general after the last remaining candidate running [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Anthony Faiola, Ellen Francis, Annabelle Timsit BRUSSELS - Preparing to host the world for the Olympics, facing threats of terrorist attacks and a war of words with [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Annabelle Timsit, Anthony Faiola, Kate Brady BRUSSELS - Early forecasts in the European Parliament elections on Sunday showed voters punishing ruling centrists and throwing unprecedented support behind [...]

Byline: Annabelle Timsit, Emily Rauhala PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that a coalition of countries has agreed to send military trainers to Ukraine, suggesting that plans could [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Anthony Faiola, Kate Brady, Beatriz Ríos BRUSSELS - The European Union is shifting to the political right. The question this week is how far - and what [...]

President Biden will allow Ukraine to use U.S.-provided weaponry against limited military targets inside Russia, officials said Thursday, a dramatic reversal of a long-standing precautionary measure that comes as Kyiv [...]

Byline: John Hudson, Emily Rauhala PRAGUE - Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday opened the door to allowing Ukraine to fire U.S.-provided weapons deeper into Russian territory, just a [...]

Byline: John Hudson, Emily Rauhala PRAGUE - The German government announced Friday that Ukraine can use German weapons to combat Russian cross-border attacks, a reversal of policy that came a [...]

Byline: John Hudson, Emily Rauhala PRAGUE - The United States is actively weighing whether to lift one of President Biden's longest-held precautionary measures of the Ukraine war: a ban on [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Adela Suliman The Netherlands finally has a prime minister - and it is not Geert Wilders, the hard-right firebrand who won a surprise victory in the last [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Annabelle Timsit, Virgile Demoustier PARIS - Two young politicians are in a bitter fight over the future of France and Europe. In one corner: Jordan Bardella, the [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Beatriz Ríos BRUSSELS - Since the earliest weeks of Russia's war in Ukraine, Western allies have debated how to make the Kremlin pay. On Tuesday, the European [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Ladka Bauerova Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico, remained in grave condition Thursday after a shooting that officials were calling the most high-profile assassination attempt in Europe in [...]

Byline: Erin Cunningham, Emily Rauhala South Africa made a searing and impassioned plea Thursday for the International Court of Justice to order Israel to cease all military operations in the [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Ladka Bauerova Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico, remains in grave condition Thursday after he was shot several times in what officials describe as a politically motivated assassination [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Loveday Morris, Ladka Bauerova, Niha Masih Robert Fico, Slovakia's prime minister, remained in serious condition after being shot multiple times on Wednesday. Political groups in Slovakia and [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala South Africa on Thursday urged the International Court of Justice to order Israel to halt its Rafah offensive and protect civilians in Gaza. In a hearing at [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico, was in âlife-threateningâ condition after being shot on Wednesday, according to a government statement. The statement, posted to Fico's Facebook page, said [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot and injured Thursday, according to local media reports and the country's president. âI strongly condemn today's brutal and ruthless attack [...]

Byline: Ellen Francis, Emily Rauhala, Vic Chiang PARIS - On his first visit to Europe since the pandemic, Chinese leader Xi Jinping faces a continent of skeptics - although generally [...]

Byline: Ellen Francis, Emily Rauhala, Vic Chiang PARIS - Making his first trip to Europe since before the pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping was treated to a state banquet at [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala French President Emmanuel Macron made the case Thursday for a stronger, more independent European Union, arguing that Europe needs a more credible defense policy to stand up [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Isabelle Khurshudyan BRUSSELS - Ukraine was left in a position of anxious waiting on Friday, as NATO allies vowed that a response to the countryÇÖs urgent calls [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala BRUSSELS - A Brussels mayor on Tuesday ordered the shutdown of a gathering on ânational conservatismâ that was underway in the Belgian capital, giving Europeâs hard-right elites [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala BRUSSELS - Police on Tuesday threatened to shut down a gathering on ânational conservatismâ that was underway in the Belgian capital, giving Europeâs hard-right elites a further [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Virgile Demoustier MAEN ROCH, France - The farmers standing with their arms crossed outside a sheep barn in rural Brittany were absolutely furious, completely en colère. For [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Beatriz Ríos BRUSSELS - The European Parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a major migration deal, bringing the landmark legislation close to approval as Europeâs political [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, John Hudson BRUSSELS - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrated its 75th birthday on Thursday, older, arguably wiser and freshly attuned to its own mortality. At a [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Siobhán O'Grady BRUSSELS - No one thought Ukraine would get this close, this fast, to securing a free, democratic future as a member of the European Union [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Beatriz Ríos BRUSSELS - In the aftermath of Moscowâs full-scale invasion, allies froze more than $300 billion in assets, confidently vowing to âmake Russia payâ to rebuild [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala Sweden officially joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Thursday, a historic shift that highlights how Russian President Vladimir Putinâs war in Ukraine is transforming European security [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala BRUSSELS - Hungaryâs parliament voted Monday in favor of Swedenâs long-delayed bid to join NATO, clearing the final obstacle to a historic expansion of the military alliance [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan, Emily Rauhala SASTAMALA, Finland - The race to stave off disaster in UkraineÇÖs war against Russia is unfolding in the battle-scarred fields and forests of Eastern Europe [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala BRUSSELS - The United States again diverged from allies Wednesday to back Israel before the International Court of Justice, despite growing tension between President Biden and Israeli [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala BRUSSELS - The United States backed Israel in a hearing Wednesday at the International Court of Justice, once again diverging from allies despite growing tension between President [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala RIGA, Latvia - Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putinâs most formidable opponent, vowed on Monday to carry on her husbandâs crusade [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Michael Birnbaum, Souad Mekhennet MUNICH - By the time the senator from Ohio took center stage at the Munich Security Conference, some headliners were on their way [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala, Michael Birnbaum, Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Souad Mekhennet MUNICH - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded Saturday for the United States and other international supporters to stick with [...]

Byline: Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Emily Rauhala, Michael Birnbaum, Souad Mekhennet MUNICH - Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Vice President Harris will try to allay concerns among [...]