On the night of 1 March 2026, as Iran retaliated against US-Israeli strikes that had begun two days earlier — and barely an hour after Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that American forces could ...

The UK has two Sovereign Base Areas, or SBAs, in the south and east of the Republic of Cyprus. Pictured here: the entrance to the Akrotiri Royal Air Force baseImage: Petros Karadjias/AP Photo/picture ...

Saturday marked 65 years since the proclamation of Cyprus as an independent Republic after 82 years under British rule, based on the Zurich-London agreements signed on on August 16, 1960. “Our state, ...

Cyprus requested a renegotiation of the 1960 treaty’s security arrangements, which established the sovereign RAF bases at Akrotiri and Dhekelia. (Wiki pic) Cyprus has asked the UK to negotiate new ...

Every year, on “national” days of celebration and remembrance, marked separately in the northern and southern Cyprus, politicians regurgitate dusty old speeches that portray the island as still ...