Syria

A senior police official said a Syrian man was arrested on Greece's northeastern border with Turkey with a large batch of telescopic sights for rifles and shoulder-fired rocket launchers. The official, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity...

Syrian President Bashar Assad, trying to crush rebels and accused of ordering operations that led to the mass murder of thousands of civilians, including children, had a cordial meeting with new Greek Orthodox Patriarch John X. Yazigi, who replaced...

Syria’s Greek Orthodox Church enthroned a new patriarch during a ceremonial mass in Damascus on Sunday amid civil war. John Yazigi, 57, replaces Ignatius Hazim as the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East. Hazim died in December. The...

Greek Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim died on Wednesday, December 5, 2012, at a hospital in Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut, NOW Lebanon reported. On Tuesday, local news editions announced that Hazim was received at the Saint George Hospital in...

The body of the Greek Orthodox priest Fr. Fadi Jamil Haddad, was found today in the Jaramana neighborhood (north of Damascus ) near the place where he was kidnapped on October 19th, by an unidentified armed group. Father...

Local authorities on the Greek islands of the northeastern Aegean Sea are girding themselves for what is expected to be a growing wave of refugees from war-torn Syria, as measures to reduce the inflow of illegal immigrants via the...

ATHENS - Greek Communist Party Aleka Papariga has denounced the roundup of 6,000 immigrants, under the code name Xenios Zeus, as inhuman and violating their human rights. Papariga stated that, “The Greek police forces are hiding an alternative reality...

The Greek Embassy in Damascus is suspending its operation from Thursday onwards due to the worsening of the security conditions in the war-plagued country. Syria has been in civil war for more than a year now and the Greek...

According to a Greek Foreign Ministry statement, Greece's Embassy in Damascus, Syria is about to close due to the deteriorating security situation in the country. "The Foreign Ministry is watching developments in Syria, is evaluating the security situation and has...

Greek Foreign Ministry Spokesman Grigoris Delavekouras denounced bloodshed taking place in Syria, especially after a woman of Greek descent was killed in Aleppo. "A few days ago, Marinet Sehuaro of Greek origin was killed near Aleppo. Mrs. Sehuaro was born in Syria...