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The Citizens Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis decided yesterday to grant asylum to six Iranian men who have been on a hunger strike for several...

The UK extradited to Athens a former Greek judge who fled jail sentence for money laundering in 2005. Antonia Ilia had been sentenced unanimously by...

Human Rights groups have called on Greece not to extradite a Turkish businessman and a critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Turkey. "The life...

The historic Greek warship, Velos, which now operates as a floating museum, was damaged by the gale force winds while docked at the port...

On Friday, the British Home Secretary approved a London court's extradition order on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. Twelve years ago, WikiLeaks...

A 40-year-old Iraqi man who is suspected of being a member of the Islamist terrorist group ISIS was arrested in Athens, Greece on Thursday. The...

A video featuring images of ISIS fighters released by the New York Times allegedly shows the Iraqi national arrested in Athens, Greece on Monday...

Police in Greece arrested on Monday in Athens an Iraqi national who has been charged with being a member of the Islamic terrorist group,...

The Taliban is now preventing Westerners from getting to the airport in Kabul, according to several reports Wednesday morning, and strengthening their encircling of...

A man who had come on a boat to Greece from Turkey in 2017, claiming political asylum from the nation of Tajikistan, was brought...