The Trump administration aims to deploy counterterrorism tools against far-left groups, even as it has offered little evidence they present a dire threat.
Left-wing protesters clashing with police in Milan in February. A State Department official said the episode showed why Western governments must combat “antifa and far-left terrorism.”
Friedrich Merz has called for greater European unity, but he did not publicly object to the president rebuking Spain and Britain during an Oval Office meeting.
President Trump with Friedrich Merz, the chancellor of Germany, in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Mr. Merz did not object as Mr. Trump rebuked European allies.
President Trump’s announcement appeared to draw the United States back from the possibility of military and economic conflict with American allies over Greenland.
Hours after his address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, President Trump said he had reached a framework agreement with the leader of NATO over the future of Greenland.