Ammunition

Bulgarian customs officers at Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint have found two guns and 5,200 rounds of ammunition for them hidden in a car with Austrian registration entering from Turkey on Thursday morning.

A man and a woman - both of them Turkish citizens - who travelling in the car, have been detained, Bulgaria's Customs Agency said in a statement.

The Turkish Consulate in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, was attacked in the early hours of Friday orning by 25 hooded assailants that hurled around 15 Molotov cocktails at the guard post.

The attack occurred at 3.20 a.m. outside the consulate’s premises on Agiou Dimitriou Street. No injuries had been reported. Damage was only superficial and to the building’s façade.

The US Navy will formally inaugurate its new missile defence base in southern Romania on Friday once construction of the base is complete.

There are still some tests to be run before the system is fully operational, most likely by April next year, according to Romanian officials.

Violent episodes broke out at Exarchia after the main rally for the anniversary of the murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos where about 3,000 members of anti-authoritarian groups participated.

Episodes broke out at the anarchist hub of Exarheia in Athens at 2 a.m. on Sunday as young people began to throw molotov cocktails at police. One Portuguese tourist who happened to be passing by in a car was catapulted by rocks and has been injured.

Turkey will focus on long-range missile defense system developed by indigenous means, hence why the country canceled the existing missile project tender with a recent decision by the Defense Industry Executive Committee, said the National Defense Ministry in a written statement. 

Kosovo opposition thrown Molotov cocktails and set off tear gas at the parliament, expressing anger at Kosovo’s recent agreement with Serbia.

Patriot missiles deployed in Turkey since 2013 to guard against rockets from Syria will be removed for planned upgrades in October, despite the ongoing crisis across the border, the Pentagon said on Oct.1.

Three masked people attacked a public bus in Istanbul?s central Beyo?lu district with Molotov cocktails late Sept. 16. 

No casualties were reported though the bus was damaged in the attack. 

The U.S. will send an additional anti-missile Aegis-equipped ship to the Mediterranean this fall to defend Turkey and other NATO allies against ballistic missile threats, U.S. Navy spokeswoman Cmdr. Pamela Rawe told Anadolu Agency on Aug. 19. 

"The U.S. is committed to the defense of our NATO allies, which includes Turkey," Rawe said.