The first shipment of German supplies has been sent on its way to support Kurdish forces in Northern Iraq, a Joint Operations Command spokesman said on Thursday.
Green Party leader Katrin Göring-Eckhardt is calling for a special session of parliament following Wednesday's announcement that Germany will break its rules and deliver weapons to an active conflict zone.
Germany is ready to send weapons to support Iraqi Kurds in their battle against the "barbaric" jihadist militants of the Islamic State, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Wednesday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke out about Iraq, echoing the sentiments of her foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, that in the case of Iraq, Germany may reconsider its traditional ban on exporting weapons to active conflict zones.
Germany's defence ministry has temporarily halted new orders of its military's standard assault rifle while it probes complaints the weapon doesn't shoot straight, a news report said on Sunday.
Germany’s vice-chancellor and economy minister Sigmar Gabriel still wants to massively reduce arms exports to controversial countries, despite a report showing the government approved the highest amount of weapons deals for ten years in 2013.
Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated a warning on Wednesday ahead of a G7 summit that Russia could face new stepped-up economic sanctions if it does not help defuse the crisis in Ukraine.
Germany arms sales to Russia have come under fire following the crisis in Ukraine. In 2012 Germany sold €40 million worth of rifles, pistols and armoured vehicles to the country.
Two 12-year-old German girls found live ammunition lodged into a branch in an Easter bonfire. It was due to be lit the next day, potentially igniting the cartridges and causing disaster.
Germany's weapons industry is booming, and even the vice chancellor's attempt to stop selling tanks to the Saudis is a minor concession for the world's third biggest arms exporter. But the trade is destabilizing security.
Behind barbed wire fences at a top-security site in a German forest, workers in hazard suits will soon destroy remnants of Syrian chemical weapons of a type first tested here during World War I.
A Bavarian company has created the world's first James-Bond style “smart gun” which can only be fired by the owner. Supporters say it is safer than a regular pistol, while others claim it is too complicated.
UPDATE: Nazi scientists worked on ways to use malaria-carrying mosquitoes as a weapon, according to researchers. Until now, experts have disputed whether Germany was working on biological warfare during World War II.
German arms experts unveiled one of the biggest private weapons hauls ever found on Monday. Examining the 200 firearms, which were found in a pensioners home and included grenades, a bazooka and machine gun, took hours.
The German government admitted on Monday that it had approved as recently as 2011 the export to Syria of chemicals that could be used as weapons, and in larger quantities than previously known.
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.
An angry pensioner is being investigated by police after he shot at a group of children who were filching plums from his tree. He hit one, who was admitted to hospital.
German arms exports to Gulf states are set to hit a new record in 2013, it was reported on Wednesday. In the first six months alone, the country sent over €800 million worth of combat weapons to the troubled region.
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 exported more small arms in 2012 than in the past 15 years, it emerged on Monday when the <i>Süddeutsche Zeitung</i> reported that nearly €80 million worth of weapons were sold abroad last year.
The German government will be renewing and stepping up its support for the Syrian rebels in the fight against President Bashar al-Assad, according to a report in <i>Der Spiegel</i> magazine due to be published on Monday.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Sunday said Berlin will have no choice but to accept the lifting of an EU arms embargo on Syria if other European countries push for it.
German Defence Minister Thomas de Maizière's plan to buy armed drones for the Bundeswehr received a tempered response on Monday from politicians within his own party, who warned against knee-jerk decisions.
Germany is the world's third largest arms exporter behind the US and Russia, a five-yearly report revealed on Monday. Between 2008 and 2012, Germany was responsible for seven percent of global arms exports.
