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The Greek army launched an unscheduled military exercise Thursday along its border with FYROM and a cluster of islands near Turkey, with fighter jets passing over a tent city in Idomeni near the border. Sources within the Greek army confirmed...

A helicopter of the Greek Navy crashed in the Aegean Sea early on Thursday morning, with two crew members found dead and the third missing. According to the Greek Navy, the helicopter disappeared from the Hellenic Air Force's radar at...

Well-known businessman Thomas Liakounakos was arrested at 10 pm on Monday on charges of involvement in Greek Navy armament kickbacks. Liakounakos is involved in managing 1.6 billion euros stemming from the purchase by the Greek government of four aircraft and...

Theodoros Theofilogiannakos one of the high-ranked officials during the Greek military junta, notoriously known for torturing people, passed away on September 24, after losing a long battle with cancer. His funeral will take place on Saturday, September 26, in...

Thomas Deliopoulos resigned from the Greek army four years ago and travelled to Australia, where he settled in Melbourne, opening "Kalimera Souvlaki Art," a Greek restaurant that now serves around 1,500 skewers a day. Deliopoulos joined the army at the age of 17. After...

Greece's Defense Minister Panos Kammenos has earlier today decorated an army sergeant of the Hellenic Army, whose photos rescuing a young migrant from Eritrea following a deadly shipwreck on the island of Rhodes last week made headlines across the globe. Sergeant Antonis Deligiorgis was...

Thousands of people gathered in Syntagma, downtown Athens, Greece, despite the rain, to watch the annual military parade in honor of the Greek Independence Day, celebrated on March 25. The parade took place in the presence of the President of...

The number of deaths resulting from the burning ferry-boat "Norman Atlantic" has increased to ten according to the latest information emerging from the Italian Coast Guard and the country's media. In addition, increasing worries are expressed regarding the number...

The easternmost parts of Greece, the islets of Strongyli, Ro and Kastelorizo, visited on Thursday the National Defense Minister, Nikos Dendias, accompanied by the Deputy Minister, Giannis Lampropoulos, the Chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff, General Mikhail Kostarakos,...

The leader of the Greek right-wing Popular Orthodox Party (LAOS) in a TV interview this morning said he will not resign from the helm of LAOS political party. Since yesterday, November 10, the name of Karatzaferis has been the center...