As NATO leaders gathered in The Hague for a critical summit, President Donald Trump shifted the spotlight from Ukraine to the Middle East, urging allies to raise their defense spending to 5% of GDP. The request came as the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran dominated the global conversation,

NATO leaders are expected to endorse a big new defence spending target demanded by President Donald Trump at the summit.

When President Donald Trump traveled here Tuesday for a consequential summit of NATO leaders, he arrived toting a freshly brokered ceasefire he hoped could prove to his skeptics — including at the conference — that he is a peacemaker at heart.