Germany is pledging an additional 3.5 million euros ($3.9 million) to help improve conditions for refugees in Libya. On an unannounced visit to Tripoli on Thursday, Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said many migrants in Libya "are in a desperate situation." The money, to be paid by 2018,...

A U.S. military investigator said on Wednesday that a March 16 air strike near Aleppo, Syria was a valid and legal attack on a meeting of al Qaeda fighters and did not kill dozens of civilians as reported by human rights groups. An investigation of the attack on a building in Al-Jina village...

The EU unveiled an unprecedented plan for common defense spending Wednesday to help Europe stand alone as a global military power, while urging the United States under Donald Trump to remain on the world stage. The proposal by Brussels for a 5.5-billion-euro a year fund follows a...

Germany's cabinet Wednesday backed the withdrawal of troops from the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, the German defense minister said, following Ankara's refusal to allow German lawmakers access to its soldiers there. Germany plans to move the 280 German soldiers to an air base in...