2006-07-16 04:00:00 PDT Plovdiv, Bulgaria-- "We must inform the police about you," said the desk clerk at my hotel. For a moment I was gripped with long-dormant, behind-the-Iron-Curtain paranoia ...

Since the war started, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine have destroyed roughly 40 mines in western waters of the Black Sea. Parts of the Black Sea were mined after Russia invaded Ukraine on ...

SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s military late on Thursday carried out a controlled explosion of a Soviet-era naval mine that had drifted close to the country’s Black Sea coast, the defence ...

The Iron Curtain is back. Topped with barbed wire, monitored by CCTV, patrolled by border guards, it stretches along part of the Bulgarian and Greek frontiers with Turkey. Twenty-five years after ...

Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria plan to sign a deal in January on a joint plan to clear mines floating in the Black Sea as a result of the war in Ukraine, Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler said on ...

Türkiye, Bulgaria and Romania signed an agreement to jointly combat naval mines in the Black Sea on 11 January this year. The Bulgarian government has stressed that the group's activities will not be ...

Bulgaria's navy on Monday carried out a controlled explosion of a naval mine that had drifted close to the country's Black Sea coast, the defence ministry said.

Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria signed an agreement on Thursday on a joint plan to clear mines floating in the Black Sea as a result of the war in Ukraine, following months of talks between the NATO ...