President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared in person at a meeting of Ukraine's international backers in Germany on Friday, appealing for additional weapons as Kyiv faces advancing Russian forces in the east and devastating strikes by Moscow.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asked NATO members including Germany Thursday to send naval vessels to the Sea of Azov to back his country in the standoff with Russia.
The leaders of Germany and France called on Saturday for all sides in the Ukraine conflict to "face their responsibilities" after a rise in ceasefire violations in the east of the country.
Germany announced Friday it had temporarily closed its embassy in Yemen and were pulling staff out because of ongoing violence in the troubled country.
"To be arrested and yelled at and be rudely treated by police I had to travel to Ferguson and St. Louis in the United States of America," writes veteran reporter of his ordeal.
Three Germans were among 40 people killed when Pakistani jets and helicopters bombarded suspected Taliban hideouts in a northwestern tribal district, a senior security source said on Wednesday.
Young Germans are more interested in World War One than generations before them, a poll released on Wednesday revealed. The results come amid controversy over the government's lack of plans to commemorate the centenary.
Germany on Sunday handed over command of its northern Kunduz camp to Afghan security forces, a milestone in the drawdown from a more than decade-long military deployment.
In the wake of the UN releasing its report on chemical weapons in Syria, Germany's foreign minister confirmed on Wednesday that he is holding President Bashar al-Assad responsible for gas attacks.
Germany welcomed on Monday a Russian proposal that the Syrian regime hand control of its chemical weapons arsenal to international supervision as a way of staving off the threat of military action.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle urged the United Nations on Friday "to speed up" publication of a report by its weapons inspectors on the suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle was to travel to Egypt on Wednesday for talks with the interim government and backers of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a German newspaper on Monday that European powers would "pay the price" if they sent weapons to rebel forces seeking to topple him.
Germany sees no grounds to speculate on military options in Syria a foreign ministry spokesman said Wednesday, a day after France's president said he would not rule out the use of force.