#National Guard

Cyprus has signed a deal purchasing helicopters for its national guard, Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas said on Monday. Speaking to the state broadcaster, Giorgallas said the defence helicopters would be ...

Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas said on Friday that soldiers should “realise the importance” of a healthy diet. Giorgallas’ speech on the matter was read by his ministry’s Director General ...

Anthropologist Eleftheria Charilaou testified in the Limassol Court on Thursday during the inquiry into the 2005 death of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou. On Monday, the police guard responsible for transporting the ...

In the ongoing investigation around the death of National Guard officer Thanasis Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was found under a bridge in Alassa in 2005, his family is in search of ...

The government is taking “steady steps” to modernise and strengthen the National Guard, Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas said on Wednesday. Giorgallas was speaking at a celebration held by the Air ...

The assignment of army conscripts to ‘easy’ posts appears to be based not on merit, but rather on a soldier’s family background and connections, the auditor-general said in a ...

A joint aeronautical exercise between Cyprus, Greece, France and Italy has been successfully completed, it was announced on Friday. The national guard said the exercise, held for the fourth consecutive ...

Lieutenant general George Tsitsikostas, the new head of the National guard, was inducted into his new role at a ceremony at the Presidential palace on Thursday. Tsitsikostas replaces the outgoing ...

The family of Thanasis Nicolaou, the 26-year-old national guardsman who was found dead under the Alassa bridge in 2005, on Wednesday requested for the presiding judge at the Limassol court to ...

As long as Cyprus remains under occupation, the government will continue to enhance its military strength and deterrent capability, Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas said on Tuesday. He was addressing a ...

A 54-year-old National Guard officer who was seriously injured doing maintenance work at the Andreas Papandreou airbase in Paphos died on Tuesday from injuries sustained during the accident earlier this ...

Two cases of deaths of national guard soldiers in the line of duty have been referred to the courts. The cases involve the deaths of Captain Xanthos Kyriacou, who was ...

Cyprus and the US carried out a joint search and rescue exercise – over the sea and in the air – on Monday with major US navy vessels such as Arleigh Burke-class (...

The national guard is investigating the circumstances under which an officer was critically injured at the Andreas Papandreou air base on Thursday. The officer was given treatment at the scene ...

The national guard will continue its mission as the main defence force of Cyprus as long as part of the island’s territory is occupied by Turkey, Defence Minister Michalis ...

Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas on Wednesday accused Turkey of “dangerously intensifying its actions and aggressive rhetoric, as well as creating de facto situations in the north.” Addressing the graduation ceremony ...

Thanasis Nicolaou’s mother is set to file a private lawsuit against police officers, members of the national guard and the state pathologist who carried out the autopsy on her ...

The small-scale special operations exercise TAMS ‘ZEUS – 2023’ took place between July 4 and 6 with the participation of the national guard and the British armed forces. According to a statement by the ...

New conscripts on Monday started to take up their 14-momth posts in the National Guard in a process that will last until Friday. Recruits have to enlist on the specified ...

Over a thousand people gathered in Limassol to demonstrate their support to the family of Thanasis Nicolaou, a national guardsman that died in 2005 under suspicious circumstances. “We condemn all those ...

National guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou’s family is determined to open private criminal proceedings against those who they deem responsible for covering up his death in 2005, lawyer Christos Triantafyllides told the ...

The large-scale tactical National Guard exercise Nikitis-Dimitra 2023 which took place in the land, sea, and air space of Cyprus showed the preparation and effectiveness of the units, leading officers said ...

Cyprus Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas on Tuesday warned of high road deaths being a “modern-day scourge” where people lose their lives or become disabled. “It is truly sad that every ...

Six national guard camps are to be run as environmentally friendly prototypes for the rest to follow, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas said that the ...