Switzerland has been neutral for the past 500 years. But that didn’t stop it from “invading” its tiny neighbour three times in the past 35 years. How did this happen?
Switzerland's defence minister Martin Pfister said Sunday he was "open" to placing new arms orders with the United States as a way to try to reduce Washington's whopping tariffs.
Switzerland will get round-the-clock airspace protection starting this week nearly seven years after the country was unable to scramble fighter jets to respond to an hijacking outside of business hours.
With the Swiss army struggling to attract and hold onto recruits, the defence department wants to make civilian service less attractive. Here are the details.
Seven beers, 82 shots, ten bottles of white wine, 12 bottles of red and nine cigars: this is the bill rung up by a Swiss corps commander and 27 guests – mostly high-ranking military officers – in 2014 on a night described as an "orgy" of drinking.
A Swiss soldier who ended up in hospital after shooting himself in the foot has been fined by a military court for putting one of his comrades in danger.
A woman from the canton of Vaud will become the first woman in Switzerland to fly a Swiss army fighter plane when she completes her training next year.
The pilot of the PC-7 military plane that crashed in the Swiss Alps on Tuesday has been found dead at the crash site, the Swiss army said in a statement on Tuesday evening.
The Swiss Federal Council has quashed a bill by a Swiss People’s Party (SVP) MP which called for vegans to be automatically excluded from military service.
Young Swiss women will be obliged to attend an ‘information day’ about military service from 2020 in order to encourage more to join the army, according to reports.
A stash of ammunition has gone missing from an army barracks in Kloten, near Zurich, two months after a similar incident at an infantry school in Aarau.
A Swiss man who was told he would not be accepted for military service because of his strict veganism has finally succeeded in making the army change its mind.
