A US soldier who disappeared from his Bavarian base last year and turned up at a military hospital under a false name is being allowed to exit the Army without charge after a judge dismissed the case against him.

Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House will likely transform the U.S. military’s mission in Europe, alter its relationship with NATO and upend the Pentagon’s whole strategy for assisting Ukraine in its war against Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has tapped a Ukraine war veteran to head one of Russia’s regions, the highest post so far awarded to an invasion participant as the leader looks to forge a “new elite” of patriotic workers and soldiers.

Western security officials suspect Russian intelligence was behind a plot to put incendiary devices in packages on cargo planes headed to North America, including one that caught fire at a courier hub in Germany and another that ignited in a warehouse in England.

A U.S. lawmaker wants to know whether the Pentagon’s largest overseas medical facility is denying employment to qualified military spouses in favor of local applicants in Germany.

Ukrainian troops have for the first time engaged with North Korean units that were recently deployed to help Russia in the war with its neighbor, Ukraine’s defense minister said Tuesday.

Police in Germany on Tuesday arrested eight suspected members of a far-right militant organization, Germany’s public prosecutor said.

European security officials have linked suspected Russian operatives to a plot to smuggle incendiary devices onto a cargo plane in Germany, in what investigators believe may have been a trial run for future attacks targeting North America-bound aircraft.

South Korean and the European Union on Monday strongly condemned North Korea’s reported dispatch of troops to aid Russia’s war against Ukraine and expressed concerns that Russia could reward North Korea with transfers of sensitive technology to enhance its nuclear and missile programs.

Germany’s top diplomat arrived Monday in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on an unannounced visit, in what appeared to be a show of European support for Ukraine on the eve of a U.S. presidential election that could bring far-reaching changes in Washington’s policy toward Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor.

Spain’s King Felipe VI and top government officials were pelted with mud by a crowd of enraged survivors of Spain’s floods during the first visit Sunday by the country’s leaders to the center of the suffering.

In a matter of minutes, flash floods caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain swept away everything in their path. With no time to react, people were trapped for hours in vehicles, homes and businesses.

Aviano downs BFA and Naples to win a DODEA-Europe title that has eluded group of seniors who have starred in several sports over the years, but come up short.

Viasna, the country’s oldest human rights group said Saturday that Dmitry Schletgauer is the seventh dissenter to die in jail since Minsk launched a harsh and extensive crackdown on the opposition in 2020. Rights groups say Belarus now holds some 1,300 political prisoners.

In a national referendum on Oct. 20, Moldovans voted by a razor-thin majority of 50.35% in favor of securing a membership in the E.U. But the results of the referendum and the first round of the presidential election were overshadowed by allegations of a Moscow-backed vote-buying scheme.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged its allies to take steps before North Koreans troops deployed in Russia reach the battlefield.

Nearly three years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has brought no shortage of complicated twists and turns. But one bizarre new element particularly stands out: North Korean troops in the battlefield mix.

The U.S. is providing about $425 million in new military aid to Ukraine that includes air defense interceptors, munitions for rocket systems and artillery, armored vehicles and anti-tank weapons, the Pentagon announced Friday.

Army and Air Force Exchange Service employees have the legal right to either show up on the job or walk out. Employees won’t notify supervisors of their choice until Monday, leaving AAFES in the dark about which areas of its operations will be affected and to what extent.