Souda Bay

According to an announcement issued on Wednesday by the US Department of State, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs R. Clarke Cooper will travel to Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria beginning on October 14, 2020, to meet with US...

The huge troop-carrying ship USS Hershel “Woody” Williams has been deployed to Souda Bay naval base in Crete as of October 1, the U.S. Sixth Fleet announced. It is the first time in 40 years that a US ship will...

  Greek media are reporting that there is a change in the air over Souda Bay base on Crete. During the day on Friday, four F-16 fighter jets from the United Arab Emirates will fly there and it is reported that...

USS Hershel “Woody” Williams, the second of a new class of sea-based ships called Expeditionary Sea Bases, docked at Crete's Souda Bay base on Tuesday. The huge vessel set sail from Virginia on July 27, for its inaugural deployment following...

At a time when tensions between the United States and Iran are escalating dangerously, the strategic importance of Souda Naval Base on Crete is coming under the spotlight once again. Formally known as ''Naval Support Activity, Souda Bay,'' this facility, located...

The U.S. Air Force has deployed its B-52 Stratofortress bomber to Greece for the first time, according to a new statement issued by Naval Support Activity Souda Bay. “A B-52 Stratofortress bomber was diverted to land at Naval Support Activity...

The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joseph F. Dunford, expressed Washington’s desire to further upgrade the American base at Souda Bay on Crete. The joint Greek-U.S. base is a forward operating site for U.S. and allied operations...

The Souda Bay base is on the northwest coast of the Greek island of Crete and hosts the Crete Naval Base, a major naval installation of the Hellenic Navy and NATO in the eastern Mediterranean. Recently, concerns amidst tensions between Turkey...

Strengthening military cooperation between Greece and the United States and the NATO base in Souda Bay, Crete, were the main issues discussed in a meeting between Defense Minister Panos Kammenos and the Deputy Commander of the United States European...

On Saturday July 19, residents, unionists and members of environmental organizations blocked the road to the NATO naval base in Souda Bay, Crete, protesting against the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons in the Mediterranean Sea. The blockade is expected to last...