The head of the domestic intelligence agency in the German state of Thuringia has praised a decision taken by its partner agency in Lower Saxony to rate the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as ...

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Friday he is maintaining the observation of the far-right Alternative for ...

BERLIN, Feb 26 - A German court granted the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) an injunction on Thursday ordering the ...

The domestic intelligence agency can still spy on the far-right party, and the ruling may not change Germans’ views, but it is a symbolic victory for the AfD.

The ruling is temporary, but party co-leader Alice Weidel has already described it as a "major victory".

A German court says that the country’s domestic intelligence agency can’t label the Alternative for Germany party a proven right-wing extremist group while it considers a complaint by the party ...

A German court has rightly blocked the country’s domestic intelligence service from continuing to brand the Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) party a “right-wing extremist” ...

Coincidence or not, the party has timed its congress for the centenary of an infamous Nazi rally. But condemnation didn’t stop Hitler, and it’s not enough now, says historian and journalist Katja Hoye ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has for the first time been classified as right-wing extremist by a federal state in the ...

Turmoil has engulfed the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD). Allegations of nepotism and weak leadership are circulating, and influential officials warn the party is jeopardizing its ...

The court found efforts to undermine the free democratic order from within the far-right party, but ruled the organization as a whole did not follow that push.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and Correspondent Rob Schmitz discuss Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, at to the Munich Security Conference.