Counterterrorism

The Greek government has been cooperative in the United States counterterrorism efforts in 2018, the U.S. Department of State annual report on terrorism says. The report says that Greece has improved its tools and information exchange to screen undocumented migrants...

  A foreign national arrested in Athens late on Saturday with a bag containing detonators had been repeatedly reported to police in the past, according to media sources over the weekend. Counterterrorism officers held the man, who is reportedly of Afghan...

A plan for the prevention and handling of the phenomenon of radicalization of Muslims in Greece has been undertaken by Hellenic Police (ELAS) in cooperation with pertinent authorities. Greek police have already identified strains of radicalized Islamic groups integrated in...

Terrorist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire took responsibility for a time bomb placed outside the home of Appeals Prosecutor Georgia Tsatani at 11:45 pm on Wednesday in Exarcheia, in central Athens. Prior to the explosion, at 22:22 pm,...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expressed his concern over the potential release of convicted November 17 terrorist Savvas Xeros to Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias upon the latter's official visit to Washington. The Greek official assured his U.S. counterpart...

The Counterterrorism police are currently investigating the houses of Golden Dawn members Stathis Boukouras, Panagiotis Iliopoulos and Yorgos Germenis, after a public prosecutor's request. The three men face charges for participating and managing a criminal organization. The police officers had received the...