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The Trump administration’s warning last month that Europe must now take care of security in its own backyard raises troubling questions

A German military base was sealed off for several hours Wednesday as authorities investigated suspected sabotage while a NATO airbase in the country faced an attempted trespassing incident, officials said.

Germany has scrapped a requirement for its military servicepeople to be vaccinated against COVID-19

Annual event in June is designed to make service in volunteer army more attractive amid looming threats

Germany's defense minister unveils plan to enhance military capabilities in response to potential threats, emphasizing readiness against Russia.

Germany, already Europe's biggest supporter of Ukraine, has unveiled plans to double its military aid to Kyiv for 2024, while continuing to invest in its armed forces in order to become "the backbone of European defence". It’s a strategy shift Berlin hopes to maintain over the long term, but counting…

Fewer than 80 years after the Holocaust, some 300 Jews serve in the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces

The German defense ministry says that it has received 178 applications for compensation from gay servicepeople who experienced discrimination in the military in the past

Germany says it is willing to send around 4,000 troops to Lithuania on a permanent basis to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday said it was absurd that Russia had assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, adding this showed the institution's "total bankruptcy". Earlier in the day, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu promised to increase the supply of ammunition to Russian forces in…

Germany's military cannot completely fill its existing gaps by 2030, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius was quoted as saying, as Berlin seeks to revamp its armed forces after Russia's invasion of Ukraine following decades of neglect.