Germany has launched its first deployment abroad since World War II. The country's parliament said troops will be sent to eastern Lithuania, which is NATO's eastern flank. The unit is to be fully ...

BERLIN — Germany officially launched its first permanent foreign troop deployment since World War II on Tuesday — a 5,000-strong armored brigade in Lithuania — as Berlin moves to bolster NATO’s ...

There are questions about Germany's ability to follow through on Merz's ambitious proposals, especially given its history of consistently falling short of NATO's 2% GDP defense spending target.

Germany's military weakness is due to chronic underinvestment. Germany hit NATO’s 2 percent of gross domestic product defense spending target in 2024 for the first time since 1991, according to World ...

Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) alleges that Putin is planning to test how seriously NATO countries will take their obligation to provide assistance as required under Article 5 of ...

Germany has also sent a handful of the more modern Leopard 2 tanks. The European Union appears committed to yanking up defense spending and investment in continental NATO's industry, rather than ...

With Donald Trump’s open support for Russia and his turning away from Europe and NATO, the question of the ... and non-nuclear states in Europe. Germany is open to such a dialogue.

The law will exempt spending on defence and security from Germany's strict debt rules ... Donald Trump signalled an uncertain commitment to Nato and Europe's defence. However, state government ...

all non-U.S. NATO allies spent the 2% target on average for the first time. Twenty-three out of the 32 total member countries will meet or exceed the 2% target, including France and Germany ...

But Putin’s broader geostrategic goal also includes dismantling NATO. Putin knows ... movements in former Soviet regions illegally occupied by Russia today — Transnistria (in Moldova ...

The U.S. is in talks with the German government and Russian officials to resume refinement of Russian oil from a major pipeline snaking through the NATO country ... House and Germany's federal ...