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The National Guard and the US Armed Forces jointly organised the “PROTEAS – 04” Special Operations Training Exercise, which focused on the planning and execution of special operations. The exercise took place ...

The national guard on Tuesday celebrated 60 sixty years since its establishment in 1964. Sixty years ago, on June 4, the council of ministers decided by decree to establish the military force under ...

The Nicosia military court acquitted the sole defendant in the case concerning the accident that saw 27-year-old Corporal Natali Neophytou die while on military duty, it emerged on Tuesday. The ...

Two Greek soldiers (Eldyk) serving in Cyprus were injured during a training exercise in Stavrovouni, the Greek Defence Ministry said on Wednesday calling for authorities to investigate the incident. The ...

Turkish Cypriot Mustafa Hurben is not a rabble rouser, but quietly steadfast in his refusal to take up arms While attempting to imagine what interviewing a Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector ...

The body of a 20-year-old Cypriot at military school in Greece who died during an exercise on Friday will be flow back to the island on Monday. An autopsy has ...

Military personnel from the UK and Cyprus have concluded a joint an air defence exercise on the island, the National Guard announced on Wednesday. The purpose of the exercise – Aphrodite ...

Men who served the army in Greece are discriminated against in Cyprus where public service promotions are concerned, a report by Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides revealed on Thursday. Poeple working ...

The national guard has just completed a military exercise with the US armed forces that began on February 20, it was announced on Sunday. The exercise, ‘Proteas’ included the army and ...

The case file over the allegedly homophobic rant posted by a non-commissioned officer (NCO) to TikTok is expected to be handed to the legal service early next week. The suspect ...

A national guard officer who posted TikTok videos saying being gay goes against nature caused uproar on Wednesday, with a slew of complaints filed to the defence ministry and police. ...

Where do you look when somebody says: “In the age of Apaches and laptops, everything I did in the course of two combat tours was recorded, time-stamped. I could always ...

2022 in review: progress of sorts in the case of Thanasis Nicolaou 2022 was the year in which the case of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was found under a ...

Criminal proceedings will be initiated against a national guard officer for the death of a 27-year-old special forces contract soldier last year, police said on Friday. The case will explore ...

The director of the president’s office Andreas Iosif assured protesters outside the palace on Sunday that their concerns over gender equality in the national guard would be addressed. Iosif ...

By Jonathan Shkurko Savvas Matsas – one of the two criminal investigators tasked with shedding light on the death of guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou in 2005, said on Friday that “in 50 years of ...

Some €19 million in funding has been secured by the defence ministry via the European Union’s structural funds Thalia programme for the installation of photovoltaic systems in National Guard barracks ...

The National Guard needs to be ready at all times to avoid another fait accompli, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Tuesday addressing the new intake of military school students ...

The ‘Guardian 2022’ tactical exercise involving joint training between national guard’s special forces with their US counterparts was recently concluded, according to an official announcement from the defence ministry. The ...

The first batch of conscripts arrived at National Guard enlistment centres on Monday, the start day of conscription, which will be completed on Friday. Conscripts will be assigned and transferred ...

The selection process for this year’s army recruits and their allocation in various units of the national guard has been decided with meritocracy, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on ...

A second person, a retired military doctor, has been arrested in connection with a ring offering families a way to pay their son’s way out of the army, it ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides on Friday denied that a suspect currently on remand by the courts for allegedly offering families army exemptions for their sons for a hefty fee, was ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Friday a man on remand for allegedly taking payment to secure boys did not have to do the army was not employed at the ...