Military personnel

The lawyer for the widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan said on July 4 that they have filed an application so that any money paid by the Canadian government to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner convicted of killing him will go toward the widow and another U.S. soldier injured.

A former four-star general arrested over the failed July 15, 2016 coup attempt has cited Turkey's chief of general staff as a witness to prove his innocence. 

The July 2016 coup attempt of Fethullah Gülen's followers took decades of systematic planning, which involved the infiltration of the Turkish Armed Forces from bottom to top. By the time of the coup attempt, Gülen's followers occupied almost half of the general and admiral positions. 

Turkey's new seismic survey ship, MTA Oruç Reis, has become ready to enter service. 

State-run Anadolu Agency reported on June 28 that all required tests of the ship had been completed.

The MTA Oruç Reis ship will become Turkey's second national seismic survey at international standards, joing the Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa. 

The High Court in Valjevo, Serbia, on Friday rehabilitated a former Chetnik commander Nikola Kalabic, annulling the Communist-era verdict from 1946 which declared him a “national enemy”.

The Higher Prosecutor’s Office in Valjevo told Beta news agency that it would “certainly appeal” the court ruling.

Spetses is a Saronic Gulf island not far from the mainland Peloponnese. Comprised of just one historic main town, it offers great nightlife and restaurant options along with plenty of accessible beaches. Many affluent Athenians have made Spetses their second home.

Turkish Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar spent most of his office hours on July 15, 2016 in preparations for the upcoming Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) meeting, due to convene at the beginning of August. Together with Commander of the Land Forces Gen. Salih Zeki Çolak, Akar went through the lists, reviewing names one by one.  

The stances of Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan on the night of the coup attempt on July 15, 2016 were the hottest debate last week. Several assumptions and theories in these debates focused on the attitudes of these two.

We Greeks owe a lot to the Percentages Agreement signed in Moscow in 1944 between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, which decreed that the West would have 90 percent of the say in what happened in Greece and the Soviet Union just 10 percent.

It was December in northern Syria and the temperature was dropping fast. Local militias fighting the Islamic State had suffered heavy casualties after a tough battle, and U.S. special operations forces urgently needed to get blankets to their partners. They turned to a small charity run by Jim Hake, a former venture capitalist who made his fortune on tech startups in California.