FILE - In this Oct. 18, 1977 file photo the first freed hostages step down the gangway after landing at Frankfurt am Main's airport, in West Germany. Ulrich Wegener, the commander of the German ...

October 9, 2008: Germany is pulling its commandos out of Afghanistan. The KSK commandos have been there for most of the last seven years. Many Germans, especially leftist politicians and journalists, ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's elite KSK commando unit issued a rare statement on Friday to signal its disapproval over the release of an Afghan it had detained for taking part in a deadly raid on ...

The Brandenburgers specialized in missions that seemed impossible. During some of their most daring operations, they disguised themselves as NKVD officers—the very organization responsible for ...

BERLIN - German police say commandos grabbed two terrorist suspects from an Amsterdam-bound flight early Friday before the plane took off from Cologne. North Rhine-Westphalia state police said a ...