More than 100 people packed into the base chapel this week at Patch Barracks, where some military families voiced opposition to recent Pentagon executive orders.

Protesters chant ‘DEI’ in apparent reference to ban enacted by Hegseth on some books in defense department schools

Patch Middle School at the U.S. Army's Patch Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany. About 55 of the school's students on Tuesday held a walkout during a visit by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to the installation for meetings with service members and military officials. (John Vandiver/Stars and Stripes)

Middle schoolers at a U.S. military school in Germany chanted 'DEI' at a protest against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday.

An Afghan man with suspected Islamist sympathies went on trial in Germany on Thursday on charges of murder and attempted murder after a stabbing attack targeting a political rally in the western city of Mannheim.

The civil disobedience by dozens of middle-schoolers — and some adults — was aimed at the Trump administration’s rollback of DEI initiatives.

The European schedule begins at Dalhalla in Rättvik, Sweden, on June 18, and wraps up at Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart, Germany, on July 8. The band will play in Ireland at Dublin's Malahide Castle on June 26 in addition to the previously announced on/off/on-again booking at this year's Glastonbury Festival.

The defense secretary said he is more aligned with the rank-and-file troops than the leaders he’s now tasked to work with after working out with troops.

On a visit to a U.S. military hub in Stuttgart, Germany, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was booed by around two dozen people who live at the base in an apparent demonstration against the Trump administration’s anti-DEI policies.

Two German court rulings declared that Michael Blume, the German commissioner tasked with fighting antisemitism in Baden-Württemberg, can be labelled antisemitic because of his attacks on a German Jew and the Israeli national icon, Orde Wingate. Blume refused to comment on Stuttgart’s reported role in banning the Israeli baseball team.