#Defence

Cyprus, Greece and Jordan agreed on Wednesday to set in motion procedures for the holding of joint military exercises. The decision was taken by the defence ministers of Cyprus and ...

The National Guard will be equipped with new weapons systems like drones to be able to deal with asymmetric threats, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Tuesday. Petrides said the ...

Cyprus is one of France’s top partners in the Eastern Mediterranean region, Captain Paul Merveilleux du Vignaux, commanding officer of French frigate ‘Auvergne’ said on Monday. The frigate docked ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides on Wednesday launched the multinational search and rescue exercise Nemesis 2021 with the participation of eight countries, including Cyprus. Speaking at the joint search and rescue coordination ...

The military can play amid a positive role among wider efforts to alleviate the climate crisis, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides told a climate change and security conference on Monday. Petrides ...

Defence ministry delegations from Cyprus and the US met in Nicosia on Friday in the framework of the first Defence and Security Cooperation Dialogue between the countries. A statement released ...

The House selection committee unanimously decided on Monday there was no legal reason justifying the exclusion of an MP from any parliamentary committee, after Edek chairman Marinos Sizopoulos refused to ...

The first Intergovernmental Summit between Cyprus and Egypt was described as “historic” by President Nicos Anastasiades who laid the groundwork for closer ties on Saturday with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel ...

Cyprus’ general government expenditure on defence in 2019 stood at 1.8 per cent of GDP, the fourth highest rate in the EU27 after Estonia, Greece and Latvia, according to figures published by ...

Six Cypriot SMEs were selected to participate in another five projects of the European Commission’s European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) for 2020, in what the defence ministry hailed as ...

Lebanon`s armed forces chief Joseph Aoun is paying an official visit to Cyprus accompanied by a three-member delegation at the invitation of the National Guard chief, Lieutenant General Demokritos ...

The ministers of defence of Cyprus and Slovakia met on Thursday in Nicosia to discuss bilateral relations, the continuing tension in the Eastern Mediterranean region as well as the recent ...

The defence minister of Slovakia, Jaroslav Naď, will visit Cyprus on Thursday to discuss the promotion of defence and military cooperation between the two countries. During his visit, the Slovak ...

Cyprus and Lebanon signed an MoU agreement for cooperation in the oil and gas sector on Friday during a visit by the neighbouring country’s Defence Minister and Deputy Prime ...

US Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) applauded the Committee passage of their new legislation to bolster the United ...

The US on Thursday welcomed in their Nicosia embassy, the first eight officers from the National Guard who are going to participate in the International Military Education and Training (IMET) ...

The defence ministers of Cyprus, Greece and Egypt met in Nicosia on Wednesday to further strengthen military ties. In their joint statement following the 4th trilateral defence ministers΄ meeting, the ...

Defence minister Charalambos Petrides will meet his Greek and Egyptian counterparts in Nicosia on Wednesday afternoon. Petrides will meet Nikolaos Panayiotopoulos and General Mohamed Zaki to discuss the latest developments ...

Escorted by a Cyprus offshore patrol vessel, France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier sailed into Limassol harbour on Monday. According to a statement by the defence ministry, the arrival ...

The main news to emerge from President Anastasiades’ one-day visit to Israel on Sunday was that vaccinated Israelis would be free to travel to Cyprus without a PCR test and ...

Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday signed a Defence and Military Memorandum of Cooperation. The Memorandum was signed during a teleconference by the defence ministers of the ...