Khamenei's funeral draws huge crowds in Tehran. Mojtaba Khamenei reappoints judiciary chief, Iran-US tensions persist, Israel ...

East Germany’s infantry units were built for Cold War battlefields where mobility, discipline, and coordination mattered.

Before the two powers clashed in World War II, a strategic alliance allowed Tokyo’s military to map British India.

European leaders are finding more reasons to coordinate on defense, tariffs and foreign policy as they confront wars in ...

The goal: to be ready to “fight tonight” to defend Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, and hold the Suwalki corridor, which links ...

In 1847, the first U.S. postage stamps were issued. In 1859, the first intercollegiate baseball game was played in Pittsfield ...

A new NATO command structure took effect this week on the alliance’s northeastern flank, where Germany is playing a growing role in the defense of territory along Russia’s periphery. A German-Dutch ...

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has travelled to Estonia to mark the handover of command of NATO's land forces in Estonia and Latvia to the German-Dutch Corps, underlining Germany's ...

On paper it was the single best division in the German Army: twenty thousand men, one hundred and sixty tanks, first in line for every new Panther and Tiger. By the spring of nineteen forty-five it ...

China on Thursday defended its recent patrols in waters east of Taiwan, one day after Britain, France and Germany expressed ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Great Britain, France and Germany on Wednesday issued a rare joint statement expressing alarm over ...

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