A court has upheld Germany's intelligence agency's decision to monitor the far-right Alternative for Germany party for suspected extremism. This decision allows the intelligence agency to continue ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency is planning to expand its counterintelligence operations to include friendly countries following revelations about the United States' extensive spying ...

The former head of the German domestic intelligence service, Hans-Georg Maaßen, is taking legal action against his former agency. On Friday evening, a lawsuit was filed against the agency ...

Hans-Georg Maassen said his agency, known by its German acronym BfV, believes more than 10,000 Germans have been targeted by Chinese intelligence agents posing as consultants, headhunters or ...

FILE - A man stands in front of the logo at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, file) BERLIN (AFP) — ...

BERLIN — Germany's domestic intelligence agency was justified in putting the far-right Alternative for Germany under observation for suspected extremism, a court ruled Monday, rejecting an ...

Germany’s domestic intelligence service (BfV) supplies data to the American National Security Agency (NSA) and cooperates closely with the US spy agency. This emerged from a secret German ...

The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) filed a lawsuit on Monday against its classification by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency as an extremist organization. The legal action was ...

BERLIN — Germany’s domestic intelligence agency took a first step on Tuesday toward placing the far-right Alternative for Germany party under surveillance as a threat to the country’s ...

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an extremist entity that threatens democracy, a move enabling it to better monitor the ...