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According to a Greek Foreign Ministry statement, Greece's Embassy in Damascus, Syria is about to close due to the deteriorating security situation in the country. "The Foreign Ministry is watching developments in Syria, is evaluating the security situation and has...

Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, US officials say, a move that threatens to escalate regional conflict further. Iranian state media are citing unconfirmed reports of explosions in the central province of Isfahan. Iranian news reports say that...

Iran has officially launched an attack on Israel with dozens of drones, sources from both countries stated on Saturday evening European time.

Fears are growing that Iran could hit Israel with missiles or drones in the next few days in apparent retaliation for the Israeli bombing of an Iranian consular building in Damascus on 1 April, which killed a top Islamic...

Indians have a special connection with the ancient city of Antioch. The city, now part of Turkey, was renamed Antakya but their connection with it is fleeting at best when compared to the Greeks and Syrians, taking a chronological...

In recent news affecting everyone feeling the financial squeeze, the ongoing global cost of living challenge persists, especially hitting those in big cities hard. This has given us a list of the world's most expensive cities in 2023. As per...

Athens has plunged to the bottom of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) latest ranking of the world's most livable cities. The COVID-19 Pandemic has had a major effect on this years list, with many top 10 mainstays falling to...

An ancient Greek inscription from the Byzantine era was found on a 1,500-year-old mosaic floor near the Damascus Gate, in the Old City of Jerusalem. The building that the floor belongs to is believed to have been a hostel for...

A pro-Syrian government news network and Lebanese State media reported that the thirteen Greek Orthodox nuns and three maids that were kidnapped in late November from a Greek Orthodox monastery in Syria were freed on Sunday, March 9, 2014. AP...

  According to some sources, the Syrian Government is trying to negotiate the release of the twelve Greek Orthodox nuns who were captured earlier this month from an Orthodox convent north of Damascus, by Syrian rebels. In exchange for their...

The Greek Orthodox nuns who were abducted by rebels on December 2, from a convent near Damascus, appear in a video broadcasted on Friday and report that they are being held in a safe place. The video that was broadcasted...

  The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that Islamist Rebels broke into St. Thecla Orthodox Convent in Maaloula, 60km north of Damascus, taking hostage, the Mother Superior, Pelagia Sayyaf, along with a number of nuns. This break-in was accompanied...

The Greeks of Syria are also suffering the catastrophe of the civil war that has taken many victims, including two Orthodox Bishops who are missing, and as the strife continues to grow. Syria has many close historical and cultural ties...

Syria’s Greek Orthodox Church enthroned a new patriarch during a ceremonial mass in Damascus on Sunday amid civil war. John Yazigi, 57, replaces Ignatius Hazim as the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East. Hazim died in December. The...

The new Eastern Orthodox Patriarch said on Saturday that peace can only be achieved through "common dialogue" and the acceptance of each other. Speaking at a news conference in the Syrian capital Damascus, His Beatitude John X. Yaziji, who is...