Military

The EU's naval mission to protect commercial shipping in the Red Sea will be headquartered in Larissa, Greece, the bloc's defense ministers agreed on Wednesday. Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias tweeted that his EU counterparts accepted the offer made by...

The crisis over the sovereignty of Imia, a pair of small uninhabited islets in the Aegean Sea, in January 1996 led Greece and Turkey to the brink of war. The quickly spiraling crisis saw the deployment of both countries’ special...

Belisarius is the much underrated military commander of the Byzantine Empire who led the armies of Justinian I in reclaiming enormous swathes of the former Western Roman Empire from northern Africa to the Italian peninsula. Much of Belisarius' early military...

Greece is in talks with the US to co-produce US-designed Constellation-class frigates, Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said on Monday. “On January 16, we received a letter from the US Navy accepting, in principle, our interest in the co-design and co-production...

The wreck of a long-lost First World War French submarine was recently discovered by an underwater research team off Greece. Floreal, which sank in 1918 was located by the team of Kostas Thoctarides at a depth of 98 meters in...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has asked Greece to send excess weapons to Ukraine following the deal to sell Athens the fifth-generation F-35 jets. In a letter addressed to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Blinken expressed interest in Greece’s...

As unlikely as it may seem, a dispute over salvage rights between Turkish and Greek captains was the trigger for a series of events which escalated into a major international incident called the Imia Crisis. The quickly-spiraling crisis saw the...

The U.S. State Department on Friday approved the sale of up to forty F-35 fighter jets to Greece, in a $8.6 billion deal.

Greece is expecting the official letter from the US State Department to approve the sale of F-35s to Greece, a day after President Biden urged Congress to quickly approve a $20 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. Athens...

  More than 90,000 troops from the US, all thirty-one NATO nations, and Sweden are set to take part in the military organization's largest defense drills since the Cold War. The US Navy dock landing ship Gunston Hall left port on...

President Biden sent a letter to four senior members of Congress on Wednesday urging them to quickly approve a $20 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, following the vote one day earlier by Turkey’s Parliament to allow...

A Russian military plane with 74 people on board crashed in the Belgorod region of Russia, near the border with Ukraine, on Wednesday. The region's governor said all those on board were killed. The cause of the crash is unclear,...

The Israeli army says 21 of its soldiers have been killed in Gaza, the deadliest day for Israeli forces since the start of their ground operation. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Daniel Hagari, said it is believed...

Nearly twenty Greek Navy employees handed in resignations ahead of a mission to the Red Sea after finding out about the duration of the trip and their wages. Greek military news site militaire.gr published an article earlier today on Friday,...

Greece has been handed command over a permanent NATO anti-mine naval force for the first time in the latest rotation between participating states. Command duties of the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Maritime Group Two (SNMCMG2) passed to Greek Captain Fotis...