Security

To get a fake Syrian passport isn’t all that difficult in Istanbul, Turkey – a place where there are many Syrian and Iraqi refugees. There are forums on Facebook and Twitter full of posts and ads offering refugees of any nationality a fake passport, birth certificate, international driving license, even a college degree.

The joint anti-terrorist military exercise in Serbia on Saturday, called "The Shield", will be broadcast live, Radio Television of Serbia has announced, and will involve more than 500 participants from the security and defence agencies.

Top political leaders from the ruling coalition will be present among the crowd.

Kosovo police on Wednesday morning detonated a hand grenade found in the courtyard of the Constitutional Court.

The Court was evacuted and the area surrounded while the police carried out the controlled explosion of the hand grenade.

No one was injured and no damage was casued by the device.

Police and municipal authorities are stepping up security measures in Sofia in the wake of Friday's Paris terror attacks, bTV reported on Monday.

Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova and Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova have discussed an increase of police presence at public places in which large numbers of people gather.

“Triple agent” spy Markus R. is standing as defendent after charges of treason. The 32-year-old former employee of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND) arrived on Monday for his trial for espionage. The case is being tried in a courtroom in Munich, Germany.

Here at our Hürriyet headquarters in Istanbul, we have been living together with policemen; the riot squads who have been here protecting us since the mob attacksI told you (I know, many times) I was in Kosovo serving in an international mission some time ago. There was a large Turkish police contingent serving there also, made up of very nice, intelligent, English-speaking ones; some of them w

Last May, agents of US intelligence were on the streets of Athens trying to find Arab origin people who were related to Islamic State and could have been a threat to the security of their country.

The websites of the State Agency for National Security (DANS), the transport and information technologies ministry, and ballot-counting company Information Service have stopped responding.

DANS is the country's domestic security and counter-intelligence agency.

The vehicle used by the attackers who fired at ex-security agent Alexei Petrov using grenade launchers has been found, police say.

Reports suggest the car was found near the site of the incident.

The attackers are still being sought.

Police in Bulgaria's capital Sofia have found the two grenade launchers used in a Friday attack on a former counter-intelligence agent, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry has said.

No-one was injured in the attack which occurred in broad daylight, with the agent, Alexei Petrov, claiming he was not being targeted and his car was hit "by mistake".