Iran has been hit thousands of times and struck back against neighbours with drones and missiles. The conflict now spans at ...

On May 7, 1915, the ocean liner Lusitania entered the war zone around the British Isles as Germany escalated unrestricted ...

For over 5,000 years, the Persian Gulf has been a hub of civilisation. From Elam and Sumer to the Assyrians and Babylonians, ...

KLAIPEDA, Lithuania—Germany’s top military officer, Gen. Carsten Breuer, stood astride a map of Lithuania laid out on the floor of a makeshift command post in this port city on the Baltic Sea. A chill ...

Bavaria's Markus Söder is calling for fewer German federal states, but plans to merge them have drawn criticism. How realistic is a change in political lines? The German public has long been ...

On 25 September 2025, former BEA and British Airways Training Captain, Dacre Watson FRAeS, provided the latest Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) Aeronautical Heritage Specialist Group lecture at No.4 ...

Of the three Axis Powers in the Second World War, Italy’s future evolved differently from that of Germany and Japan. Italy deposed Benito Mussolini in 1943 and signed an armistice with the Allies, ...

BERLIN—A dozen senior German officers convened at a triangle-shaped military compound in Berlin about 2½ years ago to work on a secret plan for a war with Russia. Representative image. Now they’re ...

BERLIN — Boris Pistorius, the German defense minister, is a social democrat in a government led by conservatives, and the man now responsible for revamping and expanding the armed forces in a country ...

(Bloomberg) — In September 2024, a railway bridge in Dresden spectacularly collapsed into the Elbe River, highlighting Germany’s desperate need to invest in its aging infrastructure. Chancellor ...

The vehicles we know today as tanks emerged on a grand scale at the beginning of the 20th century, right before the First World War. In 1900, Britain commissioned steam-engine manufacturer John Fowler ...