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On Tuesday evening, US President Joe Biden met with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the margins of the NATO summit held in Vilnius, Lithuania. The pair met after a breakthrough was made in negotiations surrounding Sweden's NATO membership...

Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of NATO has claimed that Turkey has given the green light for Sweden to join the alliance after months of diplomatic wrangling over the issue. According to Stoltenberg, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will now...

President Joe Biden said that he hopes to get an agreement at the NATO Summit to get Turkey to approve Sweden's membership in return for the sale of F-16s to Ankara. Speaking to CNN on Sunday, the American President revealed...

On a recent visit to India, Lt Gen Themistoklis Bourolias, Chief of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff (Greece) paid homage to Indian fallen soldiers at the National War Memorial. He also met with India's military top brass and discussed...

NATO began the largest air force drill in Europe in the alliance's history on Monday, as Ukraine says it is advancing against Russia in the eastern part of the country. The German-led "Air Defender 23" will run until June 23...

General Michail Kostarakos Chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff (GEETHA) in 2011–2015 died on Friday. He was 67. Michail Kostarakos was born in Thessaloniki in February 1956. He was the son of Major General Dimitrios Kostarakos, who fought...

CIA Director William Burns visited Greece earlier in the week where he met intelligence officers in a visit shrouded in secrecy. Local news media reported that the top American spy was in Athens on Tuesday and left for an unspecified...

Finland joined NATO on Tuesday in a "truly historic" moment for the military alliance, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, adding that the move was a direct result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Nordic nation ditched decades of neutrality when...

Greece is the NATO country with the highest defense spending as a percentage of GDP among all allies, including the US, data released on Tuesday show. According to NATO's Annual Report for 2022 presented in Brussels by Secretary General Jens...

The US vessel "Liberty Pride" sailed into the port of Alexandroupolis, Greece, on Saturday, carrying military equipment destined for NATO forces deployed in southeastern Europe. The gigantic ship (length 199.9 m, width 32.26 m, and draft 8.5 m) began unloading...