Boris Pistorius, the German defence minister, told the media that the leak was the result of an 'individual error' and communication systems had not been breached - Maja Hitij/Getty Images Germany ...

German authorities said Thursday that they have arrested a second person in connection with a high-profile espionage case that embarrassed Germany's foreign intelligence agency. Federal prosecutors ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin once owned an ID card for East Germany's Stasi, the Soviet-era secret police, according to a German publication. The Stasi identification card, which was first ...

The trial, held under stringent security conditions and expected to last months, caps one of the gravest espionage scandals in recent German history. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting from the ...

The defendant stands in front of the district court and covers his face before the verdict is announced in the trial against the ex-Stasi employee for murder of a Polish citizen at the former ...

A former member of communist East Germany's secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish national at a border crossing in divided Berlin in 1974, prosecutors said Thursday.