German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses a media conference at the end of an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Havana) Overhauling the military was a key promise of ...

Overhauling the military was a key promise of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, outlined in his Zeitenwende speech, or "Turning Point" in English, immediately following the Russian invasion.

BERLIN, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The German army's battle-readiness is less than when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, military officials, lawmakers and defence experts told Reuters. Even if a new ...

German town of Bardenberg, where the outcome of a singular soldier’s sacrifice hung in the balance, depending on his comrades ...

BERLIN, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Germany holds elections on February 23, with its army's battle-readiness less ... plans for the armed forces and for German policy on the conflict in Ukraine.

He laid a wreath at the foot of a statue, made the sign of the cross and paused before a memorial wall where in multiple tongues, including German and English, the words “Never Again” were ...

Many of history’s greatest armoured fighting vehicles emerged during the Second World War. These vehicles have not only come to symbolise the struggle of their respective armies in that titanic clash ...

transcript At the Munich Security Conference, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz rebuked ... starkly laying out the threat from Russia’s battle-hardened military and making an impassioned appeal ...

A chance discovery reveals an 80 year old story of battlefield sacrifice, adding new chapters to the history of two families.

One of the main reasons is the army of mothers that has assembled to support him — not only in each state, but in countries around the world. And rightfully so. For decades, mothers (and all ...

Markus Soeder, prime minister of Bavaria, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Dieter Reiter, mayor of Munich, brought flowers to the site where a car crashed into a Ver.di demonstration ...

Ukraine's Army has inflicted catastrophic losses on Russian forces attempting to capture a key village on the Donetsk front, Ukrainian sources have claimed. Over the last year, Russian commanders ...