Syria

US President Donald Trump extended on Thursday the national emergency with respect to Syria blaming Turkey for "undermining the campaign to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria." In the notice on the "Continuation of the National Emergency With...

In war-torn Syria, as citizens try to deal with an almost total breakdown of their society after their country served as a battleground for many opposing forces, Orthodox Christians have decided to build a replica of the Hagia Sophia...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made a short, forceful statement in English on his social media profiles on Friday afternoon, commenting on the recent developments since Turkey decided to let refugees and migrants freely leave the country and enter...

Bulgaria, the EU's other member-state that shares a national border with Turkey, has been toughening its controls along its frontier with the country since Friday morning. Bulgarian Defense Minister Krasimir Karakachanov said on Friday that Sofia is ready to send...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan likes to flex his muscles in front of Europe, Greece, Cyprus and everyone else he believes can give something that Turkey wants. Or when Turkey does something which breaks international law. He also likes to threaten...

A large group of migrants and refugees began marching on Thursday evening from Turkey to the Greek border after Turkey announced that it will no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe. The DHA news agency reports that there were...

Turkey, now fighting a war in Syria, will no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe, a senior Turkish official told Reuters late on Thursday, as President Tayyip Erdogan presided over an emergency meeting. According to the unnamed official quoted...

A new confrontation between Ankara and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) appears to have been taking place over the last several days, according to an exclusive report from Reuters published on Tuesday. Turkey has allegedly been blocking a NATO...

An abandoned monastery in Western Greece is about to become an accommodation facility for refugees from Syria, local media reported on Wednesday. The monastery is located in a mountainous region on the border between the regions of Achaea and Elis...

The unpredictability of U.S. policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, along with Turkey's territorial claims in the region were two issues highlighted in a speech by former Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis in Thessaloniki on Saturday. Speaking...