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A police officer is pictured in front of the Jewish Museum Berlin building in Berlin, Germany, on February 8, 2024. (Stefanie Loos/AFP)
August 13, 2026, 12:07 pm
Germany to boost intelligence services, citing constant cyberattacks from abroad
After years of concern about Russia and others, Berlin says it plans to turn its lagging agencies into ‘real intelligence services’ capable of ‘active measures’ against adversaries
By Geir Moulson
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party candidate for chancellor Alice Weidel, second from left, and other top party officials applaud after German television publishes the first exit polls in the German general elections, during the electoral evening in Berlin, Germany, February 23, 2025. (Soeren Stache / Pool / AFP)
May 8, 2025, 5:33 pm
German spy agency pauses extremist classification of AfD until court decision
Far-right party celebrates; US officials had urged Berlin to reverse move, called for halting intelligence cooperation until AfD treated as ‘legitimate opposition party’
By Andreas Rinke
An election campaign poster of the far-right Alternative for Germany, AfD, party stands near a road in the federal state Saxony-Anhalt's capital in Magdeburg, Germany, on June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
July 8, 2021, 9:27 pm
German court delays ruling on monitoring far-right party until after election
Court says it will not be able to tackle whether domestic intelligence agency can put the Alternative for Germany party under observation, as vote is too close
By AP
A child in tiny military fatigues waves the Hezbollah flag as supporters of the group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah wait for his televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 following the US airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
May 2, 2020, 5:32 pm
Mossad gave Berlin intel on Hezbollah ops on German soil ahead of ban — report
Unnamed Israeli official tells TV Germans were provided info on warehouses where terror group stashed materials for explosives, as well as money laundering networks
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative: Far-right groups protest in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, September 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
December 18, 2019, 7:42 am
Germany adding agents, police to fight far-right extremism
Noting October targeting of synagogue in Halle, among other incidents, interior minister says hundreds more officers will investigate and prevent nationalist crimes
By AP
A participant in a European election meeting of the Alternative for Germany party, AfD, wears a cap with the party's logo in the Saxony-Arena in Riesa, Germany, January 13, 2019. (Monika Skolimowska/dpa via AP, File)
January 15, 2019, 4:38 pm
German spy agency to step up scrutiny of far-right party
Local media says Alternative for Germany suspected of ‘flirting with extremism’; its youth wing could be placed under limited covert surveillance
By Frank Jordans
Iranians gather next to a replica of a medium-range ballistic missile during a demonstration outside the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran on November 4, 2017, marking the anniversary of its storming by student protesters that triggered a hostage crisis in 1979. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)
June 2, 2018, 7:39 pm
German intelligence: Iran still working to acquire WMD technology
Dossier concludes Tehran has been conducting industrial espionage focused on technology and engineering companies in bid to boost missile program
By ToI Staff
German domestic intelligence chief Hans-Georg Maassen being interviewed on February 12, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
May 29, 2017, 10:44 am
German intel chief hopes US cooperation won’t get harder under Trump
Hans-Georg Maassen says his country has always viewed the Americans as ‘reliable,’ needs their information
By AP
Hans-Georg Maassen, head of Germany's domestic intelligence service, photographed in Berlin, November 30, 2016. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
December 8, 2016, 5:43 pm
Russia aims to ‘destabilize Germany,’ Berlin says
Head of domestic intelligence cites ‘growing evidence’ Moscow already attempting to influence 2017 elections
By Frank Jordans
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere addresses the press on the attacks in Reutlingen and Ansbach in Berlin, on July 25, 2016. (AFP/Tobias Schwarz)
September 10, 2016, 7:14 pm
Germany says over 500 potential attackers currently in country
Interior minister warns police are monitoring hundreds of people who could carry out jihadist terror attacks
By ToI Staff
German police officers walk outside an association linked to a mosque in Berlin's central Tempelhof-Schoeneberg district, where police conducts a raid targeting individuals suspected of recruiting fighters for the Islamic State group in Syria, on September 22, 2015. (Odd Andersen/AFP)
August 9, 2016, 10:15 pm
German police detain alleged high-ranking IS member
Officials say suspect caught on tip from prison inmate, reportedly regarding threat against German soccer league
By AP
Illustrative: A missile launched from the Alborz mountains in Iran on March 9, 2016, reportedly inscribed in Hebrew, 'Israel must be wiped out.' (Fars News)
July 9, 2016, 11:58 am
Defiant Iran says it will continue ballistic missile tests
Tehran brushes off UN chief’s call to halt launches, saying program is intended for defense and does not conflict with nuclear deal
By AP and ToI Staff
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, left, briefs the media as Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan listens after unveiling the surface-to-surface Fateh-313, or Conqueror, missile in a ceremony marking Defense Industry Day, Iran, August 22, 2015. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
July 8, 2016, 7:19 pm
Iran rejects ‘biased’ UN report on its missile tests
Tehran says document ignores US failure to abide by landmark nuclear deal; Berlin also monitoring regime’s activity
By ToI Staff and AP
Iran's heavy-water nuclear facility is backdropped by mountains near the central city of Arak, Iran, on January 15, 2011. (AP/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan, File)
July 8, 2016, 4:08 am
Iran seeking illegal nuke, missile technology: German intelligence
Tehran believed to have made at least nine ‘clandestine’ attempts to acquire materiel that could be used for nuclear arms development
By ToI Staff
Salah Abdeslam, the leading suspect in the 2015 jihadist attacks on Paris. (screen capture: YouTube)
April 14, 2016, 2:08 pm
Nuke research center papers found in Paris attacker’s home
Salah Abdeslam had internet printouts about institute on German-Belgian border, including photos of center’s chairman
By Sue Surkes
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