Irregular military

The three are facing the death penalty charged with fighting as mercenaries

The Turkish interior minister on Dec. 12 criticized the Greek Coast Guard units for their ill-treatment of irregular migrants attempting to cross into Europe.

The Greek political system has a unique ability to lose its bearings and sink to terrible lows. When this happens, it tends to involve the country in a lot of unnecessary drama, as everything becomes deeply personal and mercenary. The rules of civilized discourse are abolished, so there are no off-limits topics and no limits to the low-blows.

Fifteen people have died in an Islamist attack on an upmarket hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenyan police sources said Wednesday, as fresh explosions and gunfire rang out in the siege which stretched into its second day, reports AFP. 

Serbian company P.S. Fashion has been criticised for promoting its new collection with images shot at the Kadinjaca memorial complex, which commemorates Partisan fighters killed in World War II.

The Montenegrin authorities said they will change the law to impose penalties on anyone who stages commemorative events that praise war crimes convicts such as World War II Chetnik leaders.

Panagiota Roupa, a leading member of domestic terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle, was on Wednesday given a life term, and an additional 25-year sentence, for a car bomb attack outside the Bank of Greece headquarters in central Athens in April 2014.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A car bombing in eastern Syria on Friday killed at least 18 people including 11 members of a US-backed force that has fought the Islamic State group, a war monitor said.

Police on July 4 detained seven people, including five Syrian nationals, over their suspected links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa.

The Humanitarian Law Centre NGO said an appeals court decision to acquit members of the Sima’s Chetniks paramilitary group of killing 27 Roma civilians in 1992 will hinder successful prosecutions in future.