A member of the German army's elite force, KSK, was among the far-right plotters who were arrested last week for planning to overthrow the government. DW takes a closer look at the KSK's tainted ...

BERLIN — In many nations around the world, those who serve their country in uniform are honored with parades and adulated as heroes. Not so in Germany. In a country where any semblance of militarism ...

Germany’s Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbaue on Tuesday announced that she had ordered the partial dissolution of the elite Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK) commando unit. The unit has faced ...

Members of Berlin's special police force SEK (Spezialeinsatzkommando) aim their weapons as they run during a drill at the Olympic stadium in Berlin. Reuters The German Bundestag deputy, Florian Hahn, ...

A Taliban commander with links to the killers of several British soldiers has escaped from German special forces because they were not allowed to shoot. Elite soldiers from the German KSK had been ...