Europe

A Greek MEP has described the European Parliament's overwhelming support for a call to release two Greek soldiers from a Turkish prison as a "loud slap to the Erdogan leadership". SYRIZA MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis was tweeting after European lawmakers voted...

The protracted detention of two Greek servicemen by Turkey for entering its territory illegally will be discussed at the European Parliament's plenary session, convening from next Monday to Wednesday. The discussion item is expected to be approved for inclusion in...

European leaders ask Turkey to comply with international laws and EU standards if the country wants to continue on a path that might lead to EU membership in the future. The EU-Turkey leaders' meeting took place on 26 March at...

Fifteen Greek MEPs are calling on the Turkish government to swiftly release two Greek soldiers held in Edirne after they accidentally crossed into the country's territory during a border patrol two weeks ago. In the joint statement, an initiative of SYRIZA...

Albania’s President, Bamir Topi (foto) ratified the agreement between Greece and Albania on the “research, identification and burial of Greek soldiers who died in Albania during the Greek – Italian war in 1940-41” According to the relevant agreement, signed in...

Ancient Greek amphoras were among artifacts discovered last week in Odessa, Ukraine by soldiers while "digging defenses" to protect the city from Russian attacks. Soldiers from the Ukrainian 126th Territorial Defense brigade who found the artifacts wrote on Facebook that...

Albania's village of Digoti was the place where a funeral service was held on Friday for the 573 Greek soldiers whose remains were found in the region. The soldiers were killed during the Greek-Italian war between 1940 and 1941. Until now,...

A diplomatic incident was prevented at the last minute on Monday at the land borders between Greece and Turkey along Evros River, it was announced on Wednesday. Turkish soldiers, patrolling along the Turkish bank of Evros River at noon on...

Eirene, the ancient Greek Goddess of peace, is less well-known than the god of war, Ares, who in his Roman guise of Mars was an ubiquitous deity invoked by men who went to war. Perhaps this is an unfortunate reflection...

Ukraine says it killed around four hundred Russian soldiers in a missile attack in the occupied Donetsk region just after midnight on New Year's Day. Russia has said that sixty-three of its troops were killed. The missile targeted a building...

Around two hundred thousand soldiers from both sides have been killed in the Ukraine war, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, estimated on Wednesday. The most senior US general said that military casualties are evenly...

Greeks and Serbs formed key ethnic elements in the Russian and particularly the Austrian empires which were multiethnic. History favors the headlines rather than the fine print. Not unlike social media today, what is usually remembered are the posts and...

Officials in Ukraine say that Russia has looted a number of museums and has removed valuable exhibits, including ancient Greek gold artifacts given by the Greeks to the Scythians. The Scythians were a nomadic people that founded a rich, powerful...

A convoy of Greek nationals has left the Ukrainian city of Mariupol as Russia’s troops encircled the port city on Wednesday. The convoy comprised of 21 cars is scheduled to travel from Mariupol to Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhya region before crossing...

Ukrainians are fighting against the odds, just as the Greeks did in the Second World War, a French historian noted on Saturday. In a podcast Dr. Gary Girod refers to the bravery of the people in Ukraine and he makes...