ISIS

A rare copy of the Gospel, handwritten in Greek and translated into Aramaic, was found in the debris of a destroyed Orthodox church in Mosul, Iraq, the Association of Orthodox Journalists reported recently. According to the Orthodoxia News Agency, the...

French police surrounded a supermarket in the south of the country on Friday after a gunman reportedly linked to the Islamic State terror group took hostages. Media report at least one person has been killed in the supermarket in Trebes,...

A 33-year-old Syrian national has been convicted of terrorist offences by a Greek court. The man, who first came to Greece in 2016 with his family as a refugee, was convicted on murder and explosives charges related to his time...

Greek media report that Greek-made weapons were found in Raqqa, the former bastion of the Islamic State militants in Syria. According to a report on Vima on Sunday, the weapons were exported by the Greek arms dealer Vasilis Papadopoulos who...

Human interest stories coming out of refugee camps in the Greek islands are abundant, but one in particular, involving a Syrian family of three, is overwhelming. Nahil Alhelb was beginning to worry her toddler son would forget about his father...

The 32-year-old Syrian arrested in Alexandroupolis on suspicion of being an Islamic State fighter denied all allegations and claims he belongs to the Free Syrian Army fighting against Bashar al-Assad. The man who has videos of atrocities in his cell...

A 30-year-old man suspected for being a fighter of the Isis Jihadist Group; was arrested on Thursday in the northern Greek town of Alexandroupolis. According to local news sources, the man confessed that he actively took part in ISIS’s operations in...

Europe needs to prepare for more attacks by Islamic fundamentalists and new types of attacks, warns the chair of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, Francois Heisbourg, who is visiting Athens at the invitation of local think tank...

The number of people killed in twin vehicle attacks in Spain last week rose to 16 on Sunday, when a German woman married to a Greek man died according to local authorities in Barcelona said. The woman died after a...

A Greek man has been apparently spotted fighting in the Syrian civil war on the side of the Kurds against the Islamic State jihadists. Greek and Kurdish sites and blogs refer to "Ivan", a man from Athens, who is said...