Boris Pistorius

Fix, a historian and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, has built her argument into a timely and incisive book, Germany Rearmed: The Return of War and the End of Illusions

RAF Fairford: Five men held over ‘bomb plot’ are British nationals

RAF Fairford: Five men held over ‘bomb plot’ are British nationals

Patriot has become crucial since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as the system is used to protect cities and critical infrastructure from Russian ballistic missile attacks

Lockheed Martin formally presented the aircraft to the German government during a ceremony at its production facility in Fort Worth, Texas, attended by German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius

Chancellor Friedrich Merz will not fly to New York next Tuesday to attend the United Nations General Assembly as planned

Seoul can prove itself a genuine partner to Europe, not just an opportunist

The global political architecture is shifting, partly as a result of the actions of US President Donald Trump

As a far-right regional election victory looms in an ex-communist eastern German state, many migrants are readying to pack their bags, fearful of the AfD party's threatened "deportation and remigration offensive"

Merz did not say when he expected the Tomahawks to be delivered

The analysis came shortly after the Korean shipbuilder lost the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project, a program valued at up to 60 trillion won ($39.3 billion), to Germany’s TKMS

Belgium's Prime Minister Bart De Wever is welcomed by Turkey's Minister of Family and Social Services Mahinur Ozdemir Goktas upon arrival at Esenboga Airport to attend the 36th NATO Heads of State and Government Summit in Ankara on July 7, 2026

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Authorities have not confirmed how many people were injured

The rapid mobilization Thursday comes after back-to-back magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes rocked northern Venezuela roughly 120 miles west of Caracas Wednesday night

The equipment is funded by a £752 million tranche of the £2.26 billion loan to Kyiv financed with the profits of seized Russian assets

The submarines in question are German-designed Type 214 boats, built by Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems, or TKMS

The development is a major blow to efforts to boost defence cooperation between European Union states, which has become a key issue amid uncertainty cast by President Donald Trump over the readiness of the United States to help defend NATO allies

At ​present, NATO forces in all three Baltic nations as ​well as northern Poland come under the command of a single multinational headquarters in the Polish city of Szczecin

Delay in Poland deployment underscores Pentagon rethink of troop presence

NATO defences shot down four ballistic missiles launched from ​Iran during the war

Headlines in Germany today include Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt announcing plans to ramp up civil defense measures, and Chancellor Merz meeting euroskeptic Bulgarian Premier Rumen Radev

Meanwhile in Stuttgart, five pro-Palestinian activists face trial over attacking an Israeli defense company site

But speaking to reporters in Florida Saturday, the president signaled significantly deeper reductions ahead

Hardly a week passes without some new spat between the Trump administration and Europe

Trump turned back the latest proposal almost as soon as it was delivered

Berlin has pledged support in the Strait of Hormuz, post-war

The stated goal is to become Europe’s strongest conventional military by 2039 and be ready to counter an increasingly aggressive Russia

According to a statement from the Ministry of Defence, addressing the German Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence and Security in Berlin on Day-1 of his three-day visit to Germany, Singh said "... For a developing country like India, which relies on the West Asian region for a significant share of its energy requirements, disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz are not distant events, they are stark realities with direct implications for our security and economic stability."

Mediators had sought to resolve the dispute by ​April 18, but those efforts appeared to have failed, leaving it ultimately in ​the hands of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron

With that, Germany is expected to assume greater responsibility within NATO, not only by meeting capability targets — the goals the alliance spells out for its members — but also by playing a central role in defending the continent and enabling allied operations

Ukraine's Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has discussed preparations for the next meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (also known as the Ramstein format), scheduled for 15 April, during a phone call with his German counterpart Boris Pistorius

The ministry's comments came after two Japan-related gas tankers transited through the shipping lane, where 26 Korean vessels with 173 sailors on board remain stranded since U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran in late February

A little-noticed clause in sweeping changes to Germany’s military service policy has caused uproar after it emerged that the law requires men aged up to 45 to get permission from the armed forces before any significant stay abroad, even in peacetime

Türkiye on April 4 marked the 77th anniversary of NATO, with the Foreign Ministry describing the alliance as the main platform for Euro-Atlantic security and reaffirming Ankara’s commitment to its role within the bloc

Iran is moving from veiled threats to open hints that it could expand its maritime pressure campaign beyond the Strait of Hormuz to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a crucial gateway between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden

Trump singled out Britain and France as unhelpful in the month-long war that has roiled ​global markets and seen Iran effectively close oil tanker traffic through the Strait

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz both voiced support for regime change in Iran soon after the strikes started more than four weeks ago

If there is one thing American and European leaders agree on at a fractured time in trans-Atlantic relations, it’s that Europe has spent much too little, for far too long, on its own defense

Australia and Germany agreed on Thursday to simplify hosting each other's troops and cooperate on space defense during a visit by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius to Canberra

United States President Donald Trump on Thursday held a cabinet meeting primarily focused on the conflict in Middle East

The comments by German Defense Minister Pistorius come amid mixed signals over negotiations to end the war