The AfD does not merely represent anti-democratic and dehumanizing ideologies, but is also antisemitic, according to studies going back to 2016, and consistently reaffirmed over the years. The AfD ...

Björn Höcke, a regional leader for AfD in the eastern state of Thuringia, was fined €13,000 ($14,000) by a German court earlier in May for using banned Nazi slogans, according to CNN affiliate ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s ...

The AfD's success has become an urgent concern for all mainstream parties in Germany amid fears that it could sweep communal and European elections in June.

Most of those cases involved Afghan and Syrian asylum seekers under deportation orders, raising questions as to why they were still living in Germany when they struck. As for the attack in ...

Germany 's main opposition party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), is facing scrutiny as the nation's domestic spy agency reveals a concerning rise in right-wing extremism within its ranks ...

US vice president JD Vance has said he will implore Berlin to work with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to curb migration, despite an unofficial ban on collaborating with the group. Mr ...

Following are some of the key moments in the rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the country's' most successful far-right party since the Nazis were in power.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s ...