terrorism
Greece
Greek Names Included on New ISIS Hit List
A pro-ISIS hacking group known as United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) published a fresh list of international targets from places around the world, including Greece. The list, written in English and Arabic, included the addresses of those targeted and e-mail...
Crime
U.S. State Department Report Calls Greece's Sea Border 'Vulnerable'
The U.S. State Department annual report on terrorism calls Greece's sea border "vulnerable" and Greek identification documents "easy to forge."
The report for 2015 that was published on Thursday says that terrorism in Greece has been limited to small terrorist...
Greece
Pavlopoulos-Valls Focus on Terrorism and Refugee Crisis
Dealing with terrorism and ending the war in Syria as a means to halting migration were at the top of the agenda in a meeting between President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and French Prime Minister Manuel Valls in Athens on Thursday.
Welcoming...
Crime
Greek Drug Squad Seizes ISIS Opiates at Piraeus
The Greek drug squad, in collaboration with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, have confiscated a container filled with thousands of opiates. The pills, worth 13 million dollars in street value, were destined for the Islamic State.
Last week, the...
Greece
EgyptAir MS804 Crash: What We Know So Far [Video]
Egypt confirmed that "floating objects" found by Greek pilots off the Greek island of Karpathos, in the Aegean, were debris from wreckage EgyptAir flight MS804, however Greek officials cast doubt on the claim. There were reports that life jackets...
Crime
European Council: Gaps in EU Security Against Terrorism
A European Council report on protection from Islamic terrorism says that there are security gaps making Europe vulnerable to Islamic State attacks.
The report was completed on March 1, weeks before the ISIS terrorist hits in Brussels that left 31...
Crime
EU Ministers Ask for Fast Completion of Legislation to Tackle Terrorism
European Union's justice and interior ministers who met in Brussels on Thursday following the terrorist attacks in the city said they want to speed up the completion of legislation that will tackle terrorism.
“We stand determined in our common fight...
Greece
Brussels Attacks Threaten European Integration and Cosmopolitan Democracy
They say timing is everything. And an organization such as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), which has supplanted al Qaeda as the jihadist threat of greatest concern, was surely aware of the meaning “timing is everything”...
Crime
Terrorist Attacks Blast Brussels Airport, Metro Stations Leaving Several Dead [video]
Two explosions tore through the departure hall of Zaventem Brussels airport and another explosion that went off at a metro station on Tuesday morning left several dead and dozens wounded.
According to Belgian news agency Belga, shots were fired and...
Crime
Stage Play Controversy Reveals a Government with Twisted Views on Terrorism
It could have been a play that would go unnoticed by the general public. After all the Experimental Stage of the National Theater of Greece caters mostly to avid theater lovers. Yet, the fact that "The Nash Equilibrium" is...