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20 February 2026 Update North Atlantic Council meets with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, reaffirms transatlantic bond On 16 February 2026, NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska welcomed members of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NPA) to NATO Headquarters in Brussels. Ms Shekerinska chaired the annual meeting with Permanent Representatives of the North Atlantic Council and NPA members as well as NPA President Marcos Perestrello. They discussed progress made on the commitments Allies made at the 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague, as well as strengthening resilience, cooperating with partners and innovating with industry. Read more Senior Allied Officials meet in Istanbul to boost NATO’s efforts to address Security Challenges in the Southern Neighbourhood The NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Southern Neighbourhood, Javier Colomina, convened a meeting of senior Allied officials on the Southern Neighbourhood, on 18 February 2026 in Istanbul, Türkiye. Read more Chair of the NATO Military Committee visits Estonia From 18 to 20 February 2026, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Chair of the NATO Military Committee, travelled to Estonia and engaged with senior political and military leaders, visited the Ämari Airbase and delivered a lecture at the Baltic Defence College. Read more One Year Later: Advancing NATO’s and Ukraine’s Transformation On 17 February 2025, NATO and Ukraine formally inaugurated the Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre (JATEC) in Bydgoszcz, Poland. It is the first joint NATO-Ukraine organization in the NATO Command Structure and reports to Headquarters, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation. (Story courtesy of Allied Command Transformation) Read more Spanish Eurofighters deploy to Romania in demonstration of NATO Agile Combat Employment Three Spanish Air and Space Force Eurofighter Typhoons, supported by an A-400M aircraft, have recently deployed to Mihail Kogălniceanu (MK) Air Base in Romania, reinforcing the Alliance’s flexible and scalable force posture along the eastern flank. (Story courtesy of Allied Air Command) Read more Innovative technologies put to the test during STEADFAST DART 26 Turkish Armed Forces, which continue to develop and employ new technologies, exhibited the ASLAN Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) during exercise STEADFAST DART 26, underway in northern Germany. (Story courtesy of Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum) Read more NATO's Allied Reaction Force exhibits Maritime Interdiction Operation capabilities off the northern coast of Germany NATO Allied civilian and military leaders witnessed the Special Operations Maritime Task Unit (SOMTU) conduct a Maritime Interdiction Operation (MIO), from onboard the ESPS Castilla on Wednesday 18 February 2026, during exercise STEADFAST DART 26. (Story courtesy of Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum) Read more Amphibious Demonstration marks maritime highlight of STEADFAST DART 26 Allied Reaction Force (ARF) Maritime Component Command, a task force comprised of 15 ships from six Allied nations, executed a complex amphibious demonstration in the Putlos military training area in northern Germany on 18 February 2026, marking the maritime highlight of NATO’s exercise STEADFAST DART 26. (Story courtesy of Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum) Read more Behind the Uniform - Meet Spanish K9 Jimmy K-9 Jimmy is an 8 and a half-year-old Belgian Malinois and an integral part of the Spanish Navy Special Operations Command. (Story courtesy of Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum) Read more

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