Salwan Momika staged several burnings of Islam’s holy book in Sweden in 2023, which got worldwide publicity and raised anger and criticism in several Muslim nations, leading to unrest in many places. Momika was killed in a shooting Wednesday night at an apartment building near Stockholm.

A Navy ship in service for 53 years that has been a symbol of NATO strength for nearly two decades has a new commander.

Lithuania has committed to raising defense spending to 5% of its GDP, aligning with U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for increased NATO expenditures. Lithuania, which was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1990, is increasingly worried about the aggression of its neighbor Russia.

Russia is claiming it has captured another village in its relentless offensive in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region and as it closes in on the critical Ukrainian logistics hub of Pokrovsk. The fall of Pokrovsk and Chasiv Yar could enable the Russian army to complete its hold on Donetsk and even set the stage for it to continue on into the neighboring Dnipro region.

Police say a Norwegian-owned and Russian-crewed ship that authorities suspect may have been involved in damage to an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland has been stopped off Norway.

Americans in Germany who are affiliated with the Defense Department will be able to renew their personal vehicle registrations as much as 15 days earlier, under a new policy aimed at avoiding a repeat of last year’s fiascos in two major U.S. military communities.

U.S. soldiers launched small drones in search of enemy positions on the Army’s sprawling Bavarian training grounds this week, testing an array of new technology that is expected to transform how American ground forces go to war.

NEO Cafe Deli, a longtime dream for its owners, is a bright and popular spot for breakfast in the heart of Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany.

Conflicting emails sent to some Defense Department overseas civilian employees in the past two days have created new headaches amid the choice posed to the federal workforce in a White House buyout offer.

Italian authorities on Thursday rejected the asylum requests of 43 asylum-seekers transferred to Albania in a speedy procedure that a non-governmental delegation observing the process said illegally deprived them of legal assistance.

An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm, authorities said Thursday.

Increased volcanic activity in Greece’s famed tourist hotspot of Santorini has prompted the country’s civil protection minister to call a meeting with local and disaster response officials.

France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony in central Africa broke off its defense cooperation agreement with Paris.

A Russian drone blasted a hole in an apartment building in northeastern Ukraine during a nighttime attack, killing at least six people and wounding nine others, officials said Thursday.

Defense Department schools’ fourth and eighth graders ranked best in the nation again in the federal government’s biannual math and reading tests, far outpacing their stateside peers amid a continuing slump by U.S. public schools.

A force protection exercise by the local U.S. Army garrison caused major disruptions this week, as students were forced to remain on school buses for extended periods of time.

The president’s covetousness of Greenland is back on the agenda now that he’s started his second term. And this time, it doesn’t look like he’s going to let go of his ambitions so easily.

Coca-Cola has recalled some of its soft drinks in Europe after higher-than-normal levels of a chemical called chlorate were detected in bottles and cans at a production plant in Belgium.

Some U.S. troops stationed in Grafenwoehr, Germany, reported they were negatively impacted by scheduling conflicts, equipment wear and tear, and delays in meeting their own training requirements while supporting the training of Ukrainian troops, according to a federal watchdog report.