Defense Ministry

Bomb disposal experts on Thursday were examining a suspicious parcel that was intercepted at the Defense Ministry.

Reports from the scene suggested that police have closed off the part of Mesogeion Avenue that runs in front of the ministry in Athens's northern suburb of Halandri, causing traffic jams.

The United States military started installing a controversial antimissile defense system in South Korea overnight Tuesday, triggering protests and sparking criticism that it was rushing to get the battery in place before the likely election of a president who opposes it.

Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Işık is preparing to press legal charges against main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Istanbul deputy Eren Erdem after the latter claimed that the minister met with a key figure in Turkey's failed July 2016 coup attempt, Adil Öksüz, just a day before the putsch.

Serbia does not need to engage in saber-rattling as everyone knows well that we are prepared to defend ourselves, President Tomislav Nikolic said on Wednesday.

Nikolic was addressing a reception for the members of the Serbian Army and the Defense Ministry he organized to mark Serbian Army Day.

Efforts to clear mines have been launched on Mount Ararat in the eastern province of Iğdır as part of a project financed by the European Union and Turkey in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). 

Eleven people, including former Defense Ministry officials and arms trader Thomas Liakounakos, are to face trial on charges of breach of faith in connection with the procurement of 170 Leopard 2 tanks from German company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann when Socialist stalwart Yiannos Papantoniou was minister between 2001 and 2003.

Azerbaijani forces have violated the ceasefire in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh 40 times on Saturday and in the early hours of Sunday, the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic's (NKR) Defense Ministry said.

The Azerbaijani side earlier accused NKR forces of 118 violations.

SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL), the two parties that share power in the ruling coalition, on Friday called for a parliamentary investigation into defense procurements during Socialist veteran Yiannos Papantoniou's stint as defense minister between 2001 and 2003.

Serbia has started a snap combat readiness inspection of its Armed Forces in accordance with the decision of Defense Minister Zoran Djordjevic and President Tomislav Nikolic, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

Cyprus on Thursday dismissed concerns emanating from the Geek Defense Ministry that Turkey will provoke a dangerous escalation in tension when France's Total company begins extracting natural gas in the island's territorial waters this coming June.