#Iran crisis

Iran warned on Friday that European countries could become “legitimate targets” if they join military operations alongside the United States and Israel, as tensions surrounding the widening Middle East conflict ...

Israeli forces have carried out strikes in western Iran in support of Iranian Kurdish militias preparing potential operations near the border, according to sources cited on Friday, as regional tensions ...

 Israel pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs with airstrikes on Friday, stepping up a war with Hezbollah that has forced hundreds of thousands of Lebanesefrom their homes and killed more than 200, ...

Italy will send the naval frigate Federico Martinengo to waters near Cyprus as part of a coordinated European armada to reinforce the island’s security amid escalating tensions linked to ...

Foreign minister Constantinos Kombos confirmed on Friday that an attempted attack linked to the escalating conflict with Iran had been intercepted far from the republic’s maritime zone. Speaking to ...

Russia is providing Iran with targeting information that includes locations of U.S. warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing three officials familiar ...

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that Cyprus is “a victim of this war” as Madrid confirmed it will deploy a naval air defence frigate to help protect the ...

Another 307 Cypriot citizens have safely returned from Dubai on Friday, as the government continues emergency repatriation flights from high-risk areas of the Middle East. Two commercial flights landed at Larnaca ...

An “exchange of views” took place during President Nikos Christodoulides’ meeting with the head of the UK’s secret intelligence service MI6, Blaise Metreweli, on Friday, deputy government spokesman Yiannis ...

Germany has said it will not send military support to Cyprus despite rising security concerns in the eastern Mediterranean, arguing that its defence responsibilities are concentrated on Nato’s eastern ...

Commercial flights in parts of the Middle East have been grounded due to the escalating conflict following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, stranding foreign nationals and prompting governments ...

U.S. President Donald Trump demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender” on Friday, a dramatic escalation of his demands a week into the war he launched alongside Israel, which could make ...

A number of “top experts” from the United Kingdom arrived in Cyprus on Friday with the aim of coordinating the air defences of the British bases on the island, British ...

Emirati airlines resumed some flights to key global cities from the United Arab Emirates on Friday, but tensions remained high after a government-chartered Air France repatriation flight was forced to ...

The congested nature of airspace above and around Cyprus is the cause of the repeated “security threat” messages which are sent to personnel on the British Akrotiri air force base ...

British Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy on Friday said that the United Kingdom could legally strike missile sites in Iran, after the British government confirmed that its base in Cyprus ...

British police arrested four men on Friday on suspicion of spying for Iran following an investigation into their suspected surveillance of London’s Jewish community. Detectives said one of the ...

Cyprus “was not targeted in any way because of geography”, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Friday of the Iranian-made drone which hit the island earlier in the week, stressing ...

A total of 37 Turkish Cypriots who had found themselves stranded in Dubai upon the outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East at the weekend returned to the island via Larnaca ...

The “security threat” which was declared at the United Kingdom’s Akrotiri air force base was declared to have passed shortly before 10.15am. Sirens had sounded shortly before 10am, with ...

The attacks in Cyprus were aimed exclusively at the British bases, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday evening, expressing frustration over remarks made earlier in the day by British Defence ...

U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed scores of children on Saturday ...

Israel pounded Beirut on Friday after ordering an unprecedented evacuation of the entire southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a major expansion of the war against Iran it began a ...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah warned Israeli residents to evacuate towns within 5 km (3.11 miles) of the border between the countries in a message posted on its Telegram channel in Hebrew early on ...