Greece
Crime
Greek Court Jails Two Men Affiliated With Islamic State
A Greek court on Friday, convicted two men who are members of the terrorist group Islamic State, and sentenced them to 15 years imprisonment.
A Komotini court in northern Greece ruled that the two men are guilty as members of...
Greece
Greece Brings War Against the Islamic State
On Thursday, the Greek Foreign Ministry announced that Greece will vouch its political and military support for the coalition against the Islamic State.
Greece will lend humanitarian and military aid to the American-led coalition, officials said. The Greek General Staff has...
Diplomacy
Egypt Warns Greece of the Threat Posed by Erdogan's Islamic Terrorists
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis last week that Turkey may dispatch jihadists to Greece to destabilize the country, a report in the Greek daily Ta Nea reveals.
According to the report, Cairo's concern was expressed...
Greece
Sharia Law, Islamic Militants Rule in Greece's Notorious Migrant Camp: Report
A television report by Deutsche Welle, claims that criminal gangs of Syrians that are sympathetic to the Islamic State (ISIS), have established a regime of terror in the Moria migrant camp, on the Greek island of Lesvos.
The report, which...
Cyprus
Opinion: The Sound of Sirens and Failed States
July 20 and August 14, 1974 – mark a day of remembrance and a morbid recollection of Attila’s military invasion of Cyprus. This is the time when the shrieking sound of sirens blasting across the island wake up ghosts...
Diplomacy
Turkey 'Concerned' Over Greek Changes to Islamic Law in Thrace
Turkey on Thursday said it views new Greek legislation which changes the way Islamic law is implemented among the country’s Muslim minority with “concern”.
In a statement Turkey's foreign ministry warned Athens against infringing upon the prerogatives of elected Muslim...
Crime
Greek Lawmakers To Vote On Limiting Islamic Courts
Lawmakers in Greece are set to limit the powers of Islamic courts which operate in a border region that is home to a 100,000-strong Muslim minority, acting in response to a European court complaint.
Islamic courts operated by the local...
Crime
Government to Introduce Bill Making Mufti Islamic Jurists Optional for Muslims
Prime minister Alexis Tsipras said his administration would pass legislation to allow Muslim litigants to opt for a Greek court to resolve family disputes, instead of appealing to Islamic jurists known as muftis.
For family law matters, Greek Muslims generally...
Cyprus
Islamic Turkey & Cyprus
Like all religions, evil thrives on fear and ignorance. To retain its dominance, evil draws its strength from the weakness of those who are trapped in slavery by their own fears and obsessions. If allowed, evil can actually devour...
Education
Greek Minister Against the Establishment of Islamic Studies Department
Greek Minister of Macedonia and Thrace Georgios Orfanos stated that he is against the idea of establishing an Islamic Studies department at the Theological School of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki.
During an event held at the Thessaloniki Metropolis, Orfanos claimed...
Greece
Greece to Step up Screening for Islamic Militants
AP - Greece 's top security official says his government has accepted a request from the United States to step up screening at the country's ports and airports for suspected volunteers traveling from Europe to fight with Islamic State...
Greece
U.S. State Department: Arrest Jihadists in Greece
Greek State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki has confirmed press reports that the US government has demanded that the Greek government arrest jihadi fighters traveling through the country en route from Albania and Bosnia to Syria and Iraq.
“We’ve of course...
Crime
Suspected ISIS Member Arrested in Greece
A 40-year-old Iraqi man who is suspected of being a member of the Islamist terrorist group ISIS was arrested in Athens, Greece on Thursday.
The man was originally arrested on December 7 for a series of crimes, including creating false...
Greece
Video Appears to Show Iraqi National Arrested in Greece With ISIS
A video featuring images of ISIS fighters released by the New York Times allegedly shows the Iraqi national arrested in Athens, Greece on Monday on suspicion of being a member of the terrorist group.
The video, released in 2014, details...
Cyprus
France's Largest Naval Vessel Docks in Limassol, Cyprus in Show of Strength
France's ''Charles De Gaulle,'' the largest aircraft carrier in Europe, docked at the port of Limassol in Cyprus on Thursday.
The photographs of this massive vessel are impressive by any measure and send a message of the strongest possible cooperation between the...