As Filipp Piatov points out (“Germany’s AfD Ditches Trump Over Iran,” op-ed, March 7), the U.S. military strike on Iran exposes the Alternative for Germany’s “intractable anti-Americanism.” Why, for ...

WSJ editorial board member Kate B. Odell speaks to Bradley Bowman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies about the viability of the U.S. war plan in Iran. The far-right Alternative for Germany ...

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” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the founding event of the AfD youth organization "Generation Deutschland" Brandenburg, there is a stand with the logo of the ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has for the first time been classified as right-wing extremist by a federal state in the west of the country, giving authorities there enhanced powers to monitor the ...

BERLIN — For the 13 years since its founding, the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party — labeled “right-wing extremist” by the country’s domestic intelligence agency and accused by others ...

Opponents of AfD lawmakers say that their push to publish sensitive details about national security could benefit Russian military planning. By Christopher F. Schuetze Christopher Schuetze reported ...

In August and September 2025, posts online claimed that over the course of two weeks, several members of the far-right German political party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) died in the weeks ...

Seven Alternative für Deutschland politicians died within two weeks of each other before local elections, prompting party leaders to hint at foul play. Five direct AfD candidates and two reserve ...

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 center-right ...

Germany’s self-proclaimed democracy defenders are at it again: blocking a law-abiding party from exercising its rights—all in the name of protecting democracy. The Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), a ...