On December 1, 1913, the island of Crete was officially united with the rest of Greece after centuries of Ottoman rule.

It took Germany exactly three weeks to conquer Yugoslavia and Greece. To most of Britain, Australia and the U.S., that seemed a matter for profound gloom. But although the campaign had been lost, ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Workers were installing benches at a park in the ancient Greek port city of Thessaloniki when their excavator pushed brown soil off a fragile white skull. They turned off the ...

Day-by-day, play-by-play accounts of the campaign in and evacuation from Greece were released last week by the British War Office and Admiralty. They told a story of hurried dispositions, last-minute ...

A little over 200 years ago, the Greeks began their war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, which had conquered most of ...

Maja Mitic is Serbian. Zana Hoxha is Kosovar. Their adaptation of an ancient Greek tragedy highlights not so much the devastation war inflicts on women but women's capacity to heal and resist.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Workers were installing benches at a park in the ancient Greek port city of Thessaloniki when their excavator pushed brown soil off a fragile white skull. They turned off ...

For centuries, Jews were an integral part of society in Thessaloniki, until the Holocaust all but wiped them out. Those who survived and returned found anti-Semitism did not disappear with the Nazis.

An Italian Account of their Invasion of the Balkans. This book by Massimiliano Afiero has a particular resonance with me personally as my mother and her two sisters grew up with m ...

Vital supplies of US liquefied natural gas are due to start flowing into war-ravaged Ukraine this winter via a pipeline ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Workers were installing benches at a park in the ancient Greek port city of Thessaloniki when their excavator pushed brown soil off a fragile white skull. They turned off ...