Germany's domestic intelligence service classified the AfD on May 2 as an "extremist" group, enabling it to step up monitoring of the country's biggest opposition party.

Germany’s domestic intelligence service has classified the far-right Alternative for Germany, which some polls show as the most popular in the country, as an extremist party, the German ...

Germany's intelligence service Thursday paused its extremist designation of the far-right AfD party pending a court decision on an AfD legal appeal. The designation was made May 2.