BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s interior minister on Monday denied reports that he was planning on stepping down as the nation’s top security official but said he will relinquish his post as leader of the sister party to that of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Horst Seehofer told reporters at an event ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s outgoing domestic intelligence chief won’t be given a new government job after lashing out at one of the governing parties, the interior minister said Monday. It was a late twist to a saga that has contributed to the administration’s unpopularity.

The center-left ...

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that it’s time for her coalition government to stop getting bogged down in internal squabbles, after its leaders reached a deal to resolve its second major crisis in just three months.

Merkel said she regrets the handling of the ...

BERLIN (AP) — Leaders of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition reached a deal Sunday to resolve a standoff over the future of the country’s domestic intelligence chief, a dispute that has further dented the image of their fractious six-month-old alliance.

The center-left ...

BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on a standoff in Germany’s governing coalition over the future of the country’s domestic intelligence chief (all times local):

8:25 p.m.

Germany’s interior minister says leaders of the governing coalition have reached a deal to resolve a dispute over the ...

BERLIN (AP) — A spat over Germany’s domestic intelligence chief flared up again Friday, after a center-left party in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government said it wanted to nix a deal that saw the spy promoted out of office.

Social Democrats leader Andrea Nahles said she wrote to other ...

BERLIN (AP) — A decision to give a new government job to Germany’s domestic intelligence chief, who was removed from that post after appearing to downplay recent far-right protests, is causing discontent in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition.

Hans-Georg Maassen was removed as head of the ...

BERLIN (AP) — The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency lost his job Tuesday after his remarks downplaying anti-migrant violence became a battleground between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her conservative critics.

The ouster of Hans-Georg Maassen is the latest political aftershock ...

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel says a dispute over the future of Germany’s domestic intelligence chief won’t bring down her coalition government.

Merkel’s conservatives run Germany in a coalition with the center-left Social Democrats, who on Thursday demanded the removal of ...

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partners demanded the removal of Germany’s domestic intelligence chief on Thursday following much-criticized comments about recent far-right protests in the eastern city of Chemnitz.

Hans-Georg Maassen’s future as the head of the ...

BERLIN (AP) — The number of Germans who reject the legitimacy of the government has increased sharply over the past 18 months, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency said Tuesday.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or BfV, said in its annual report on extremism in ...

BERLIN (AP) — A call from the public was key to foiling an Islamic extremist’s plan to use the toxin ricin to carry out a deadly attack in Germany, security officials said Wednesday.

The head of the country’s domestic intelligence agency said a phone-in tip helped authorities confirm their ...

BERLIN (AP) — The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency warned Sunday that China allegedly is using social networks to try to cultivate lawmakers and other officials as sources.

Hans-Georg Maassen said his agency, known by its German acronym BfV, believes more than 10,000 Germans ...

BERLIN (AP) — The heads of three German intelligence agencies say national and international cooperation and information-sharing is ever more critical as threats become more global.

Speaking at a public session Thursday of a parliamentary panel, the heads of Germany’s foreign, domestic and ...

BERLIN (AP) — Senior security officials in Germany said Monday they are optimistic about intelligence sharing with the United States and Britain, despite friction in other policy areas in recent months.

Speaking at a gathering of intelligence experts in Berlin, Germany’s top security ...