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The issue of two Greek soldiers being held in a Turkish jail will be raised directly by Alexis Tsipras when he meets Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday. Thursday's meeting will take place on the sidelines of the NATO summit being...

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) will be formally invited by NATO to join the alliance during the summit meeting taking place in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday. The invitation to the small Balkan state to become the 30th...

European Union foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini has said it is vital EU states show solidarity with Greece over the case of two of its soldiers being held in Turkey. Mogherini made the statement in a letter sent to the...

Skopje's path to NATO membership is dependent upon FYROM ratifying the name deal with Greece, the alliance's secretary-general said on Monday. Speaking in Luxembourg, Jens Stoltenberg said the former Yugoslav republic would only get an invitation to join the military alliance...

Russian-made surface-to-air missiles bought by Turkey will be used "in necessary" Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Erdogan, speaking in a live television interview with four Turkish broadcasters in Istanbul, insisted the S-400 system was not for show. "We will not...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has called on Greece and Turkey to show "restraint and calm", after Ankara responded to the release from custody of the eight Turkish ex-soldiers accused of coup plotting by suspending a bilateral migrant readmission deal with...

A European Union defense chief has said Cyprus should maintain closer ties with the rest of the union when it comes to military and security planning and spending. European Defence Agency (EDA) Chief Executive Jorge Domecq was speaking on Tuesday...

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Wednesday said that his country and Greece are very close to a final agreement on the naming issue. On the first anniversary of his administration, Zaev gave a press conference...

Turkey will retaliate if the U.S. enacts a proposed law which would halt weapons sales to Ankara, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said. A report on Sunday from the Reuters news agency claimed that U.S. lawmakers in the House of Representatives...

The two Greek soldiers held illegally in Turkey are also NATO and European Union soldiers, said Defense Minister Panos Kammenos on Saturday, during an informal Council of EU Defense Ministers held in Sofia, Bulgaria. "At the informal Council of Defense Ministers...