Twenty one years after Athens closed its consulate in the Louisiana city, Greece is restoring a local presence as old ties of migration and shipping take on new importance through energy

With every anniversary, though, more of the people who arrive at Ground Zero will have no memory of where they were on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. They will come carrying other people’s memories

The program also provides for the participation of Greek defense and technology companies. According to the Greek Defense Ministry, 19 companies are already involved. Their share will exceed 25 percent of the agreement’s value, or about €750 million. 

Honor marks Tsakopoulos’s 90th birthday and 75 years since his arrival in the United States from Arcadia, Greece

Washington’s statement adds diplomatic weight to efforts by Greece and Egypt to resolve a dispute over the property rights of one of Christianity’s oldest institutions

The FDD Turkey Program director says renewed tensions in the Aegean should be read alongside Ankara’s moves in Cyprus, Libya and Syria, as well as President Erdogan’s increasingly confident relationship with Washington

Gregg Roman of the Middle East Forum tells To Vima that Athens should deepen its ties with Saudi Arabia even as Riyadh builds a new defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan.

“The Eastern Mediterranean will play a vitally important role as a gateway to IMEC,” the lawmakers wrote, describing the interconnector as a key piece of infrastructure for the corridor

The Democratic proposal would restrict federal funds for military financing and sales unless Ankara made progress on political detentions, court rulings and repression abroad.

Under an agreement reached Wednesday, the Senate will resume consideration of the resolution, S. Res. 817, which if approved would authorize the Senate to take up the 74 nominations together under a procedure Republicans established last year

However, if the F-35 issue has indeed become a matter of Trump's personal decision, then no resolution and no lobbying strategy can reach the place where the matter will ultimately be decided

In Trump’s Washington, Turkey is no longer the problem ally. It’s increasingly being treated as a model. Now, a proposed engine sale for Turkey’s KAAN fighter jet has become an early measure of whether lawmakers can still hold the line against Ankara’s return to the F-35 program

The message of the letter is clear: Turkey cannot return to the F-35 program as if the S-400 issue had never happened

The administration has framed the sale as a licensable export after a review of political, military, economic, human rights and arms control considerations

The Eastern Mediterranean Gateway Act has cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The bipartisan bill aims to elevate Greece, Cyprus, Israel & Egypt as strategic U.S. partners in energy, defense & the IMEC trade corridor

If the Eastern Mediterranean is to function as a region of energy cooperation, critical infrastructure cannot remain hostage to unilateral actions and geopolitical pressure

Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem needed little introduction when he arrived in the Oval Office

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that Turkey cannot return to the F-35 fighter jet program as long as it retains Russia’s S-400 air defense system, saying the restriction is set by U.S. law.

Patrick Theros, a Greek American former envoy to Qatar with decades of experience in the Persian Gulf, argues that the Trump administration weakened Iran militarily but damaged its path to a negotiated exit

Greece-U.S. relations grow stronger, with new bill reintroducing American military training for Greek soldiers to further improve cooperation between the NATO allies