Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic ...

After coming second in Germany's recent election, the far-right AfD party now holds even more parliaments seats than before. Constitutional experts are worried.

The AfD was founded in 2013 by disaffected CDU members. This included economics professors Bernd Lucke and Joachim Starbatty, ...

AfD leaders have repeatedly come up with deportation fantasies for Germans with an immigration background: The party’s honorary chairman Alexander Gauland, for example, once suggested they “dispose of ...

In 2018, AfD co-founder Alexander Gauland referred to the era of Hitler and the Nazis as a “speck of bird poop in more than 1,000 years of successful German history.” On Sunday, Germany held ...

While AfD surged to become Germany's second-largest political force in the election, behind Germany’s mainstream conservatives, the party's strength varies around the country. In Arnis ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, which wants to pull Germany out of the European Union and fly immigrants back to their home countries, dominated online channels in the run-up to ...