Right-wing MP Thanos Plevris defended Navy cadets who chanted anti-Turkey slogans during Greece’s Independence Day parade, dismissing the backlash as overblown. Speaking on Skai TV, he argued the ...

War of Independence, Athens hosted a military parade, church services, ceremonial gun salutes, and a flag-raising at the ...

Each year on March 25, Greeks worldwide celebrate Greek Independence Day, marking the 204th anniversary of the 1821 uprising ...

“these borders are already being violated by neo-Ottoman Turkey, which occupies part of the EU in Cyprus”. He added that Turkey “occupies territories in Syria and Iraq and has a military ...

That and HTS’s past affiliation with Sunni Muslim extremist al-Qaida, has minorities suspicious. An elderly Druze man stands near Syria’s new flag and the multi-colored flag of the Islamic offshoot in ...

JARAMANA, Syria (AP) — Syria’s Druze minority has a long history of cutting their own path to survive among the country’s powerhouses. They are now trying again to navigate a new, uncertain ...

After the Ottoman conquest of 1522, the largest Dodecanese islands, Rhodes and Kos, came under direct Ottoman rule, while the rest had different political relations with the new empire. Using their ...

Ypsilanti is a city in Michigan named after Demetrios Ypsilantis, a hero in the Greek War of Independence, showing the universal meaning of the Greek uprising against the Ottoman Empire and ...

Kingda Ka, once the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world, is now a pile of rubble after it was imploded at New Jersey's Six Flags Great Adventure on Friday morning. The implosion ...

Kingda Ka previously operated as the world's tallest — and, for a past period, fastest — roller coaster, until Six Flags Great Adventure closed the ride with no warning. Entertainment Weekly's ...