With his upper body bare and a cloth over his mouth, a man walks through Penteli, a municipality in the northern Athens region, on Monday. (Socrates Baltagiannis/picture alliance via Getty Images) ...

Greece’s worst wildfire of the year has ripped through the Attica region toward the capital Athens at lightning speed, tracking a devastating course that killed a woman, torched thousands of hectares ...

Hundreds of European firefighters, backed by fire engines and waterbombing aircraft, have sought to contain the country's worst wildfire this year. Authorities in Greece, which experienced Europe's ...

Every year, Athens draws millions of history buffs to the sun-bleached stones of its ancient temples. The city’s legendary landmarks—the Acropolis with its iconic Parthenon, the Agora with its deep ...

An “exceptionally dangerous” wildfire — with flames that have reached as high as 80 feet — is burning around Athens in the height of Greece’s tourist season, forcing mass evacuations, authorities said ...