Germany

Germany pauses Iraq training but says no ‘concrete threat’ to military personnel

Germany has halted its training of soldiers in Iraq, a defense ministry spokesman said as tensions rise between neighboring Iran and the US

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German parliament extends Africa military missions

The Bundestag extended German deployments to UN and EU missions in Mali and to the EU's Operation Atalanta anti-piracy mission until May 2020

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Weak UN resolution exposes conflict between sexual violence survivors’ needs and political ideology

UN Security Council Resolution 2467 on sexual violence in conflict prioritized political consensus over survivors

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German ISIS woman on trial for war crimes accused of letting Yazidi slave girl die of thirst

A German woman who joined ISIS went on trial accused of the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi slave girl die of thirst in the sun

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Germany repatriates children of ISIS fighters from Iraq

Germany has repatriated from Iraq children of jailed ISIS adherents, the foreign ministry said, as the war against ISIS draws to a close

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Germany extends ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia by a further six months

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government extended an embargo on weapons exports to Saudi Arabia until the end of September

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Germany extends ban on Saudi Arabia arms sales until end of March

Germany extended a temporary, disputed ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia until the end of the month

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NATO begins Dynamic Manta submarine drills in Mediterranean Sea

Submarines, ships and aircraft from 10 NATO countries launched Dynamic Manta 2019 off the coast of Italy, beginning underwater and surface warfare training

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Mali soldier wounded in firefight with German peacekeepers

A Malian soldier was seriously wounded during a night-time exchange of fire with German troops serving as UN peacekeepers in the west African nation

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Germany pledges €110 million to boost NATO battalion infrastructure in Lithuania

Germany will invest €110 million (US$127 million) in military infrastructure in Lithuania until 2021, its defense minister said on a Monday, February 4 a visit to mark two years since NATO installed battalions in the Baltic region to ward off Russia. In 2017, NATO deployed four multinational battalions to Poland and the Baltic states as a counter against possible Russian action following its 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. Germany leads the NATO battalion in Lithuania comprising 1,200 troops from 10 countries. “We’re going to invest in the long-term engagement,” Ursula von der Leyen told reporters, adding that Berlin would invest in “common barracks and training fields” in Lithuania until 2021. Lithuania’s defense minister Raimundas Karoblis hailed Germany’s spending plans as evidence of commitment to the NATO deployment. “We have heard very officially, very clearly at the political level … that Germany is for the long run here and will stay here as long as the security situation will demand it,” Karoblis said. The other three NATO battalions deployed in 2017 are based in Estonia, Latvia and Poland and are led by the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, respectively. The three Baltic states, with a combined population of …

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