Syria

Palmyra in Syria opened for the first time its doors to archaeologists and journalists. A Greek journalist from MEGA channel, Thanasis Avgerinos, was there for the first time, right after the mines were removed, in order to cover the...

A refugee from Syria who has been staying for the past month in an accommodation center at Tsepelovo -- a village in Zagori region, Ioannina -- found a wallet with cash and credit cards and rushed to find the...

A unique adaptation of The Trojan Women (Greek translation: Troades) with a cast of solely Syrian women refugees recounting their stories of loss, flight and exile is coming to the UK with a 3-week summer tour. Eurepides's original anti-war play,...

Greek Culture Minister Aristidis Baltas took a hundred refugees to the Parthenon, welcoming them as his guests in the framework of events celebrating Europe Day (May 9), an annual EU event of peace and unity to acknowledge the establishment...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTHrgiiQaPU Developed and operated by Greek entrepreneur couple Maria Calafatis and Stavros Messinis, SOLE Athens is the first school in the Greek capital that offers classes to refugee children stranded in Greece. Hosted at the Cube Athens, SOLE kick-started with 13 amazingly creative...

Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered a unique 2,400 year-old ancient Greek mosaic. The floor tiles, found in Hatay province on the Turkish-Syrian border, show a skeleton lying down with a wine pitcher and loaf of bread alongside Ancient Greek text...

Pope Francis has arrived on Lesbos, the island in Greece that has received hundreds of thousands of refugees the past two years. The Pope was welcomed by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Archbishop of Athens Ieronymos and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The Chief...

Hours before the scheduled start of the deportation of hundreds of migrants from the island of Lesbos, Greek officials had yet to finalize their plans under a deal between the European Union and Turkey. Activists in Lesbos planned a protest...

Turkey has been rounding up and forcibly sending back about 100 Syrian refugees nearly every day since January, according to a new report by Amnesty International. The human rights group said Friday that this has been an "open secret" in...

Out of the total of 55,000 millionaires that remained in Greece in 2015, 5% abandoned the country in search of better conditions, according to a recent research by the New World Wealth. The research titled "Millionaire migration in 2015" by...