Harjit Sajjan

Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina signed a military financial cooperation agreement on March 3 in the Turkish capital Ankara.

The defense ministers of the two countries signed the deal following talks on bilateral and regional defense, security, and cooperation in the defense industry, according to a statement by the Turkish National Defense Ministry, 

Canada has announced it will increase its defense budget by 73 percent over the next decade, raising its budget to US$24.2 billion. It comes after US President Donald Trump challenged NATO countries to meet the bloc's defense spending target.

Waterlogged parts of eastern Canada were hit with more rain early on May 7, as freshly deployed troops helped evacuate residents ahead of peak flooding expected in the coming days.

Torrential rains combined with runoff from melting snow have caused rivers to overflow their banks, posing a critical situation from Ottawa to Montreal.

The Canadian navy's HMCS Fredericton has set sail for the Aegean Sea to take part in the new NATO mission to fight human traffickers and reduce the number of refugees crossing from Turkey to the European Union in search of a better life.