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Cyprus is turning to the west to renew its air defence systems, a senior government source said on Thursday. The source told Reuters the country is “turning to other countries ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Tuesday hit out at what he called the unnecessary public debate and war of words over Cyprus joining Nato. Kombos, speaking at the House foreign ...

Closer ties with Nato would not only render the island a pillar of security and stability in the region but would also create better conditions for a solution to the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday announced that Cyprus was getting ready to join Nato, if and when Turkey withdraws its objections, which it will never as things stand. The president, ...

Cyprus is getting ready to join Nato, if and when Turkey withdraws its objections, and to this end the country is discussing with the United States how it can take ...

President Nikos Christodoulides reportedly presented a plan of Cyprus’ possible future accession to NATO to US President Joe Biden at their meeting in October 30 at the White House. According to ...

Hundreds of people demonstrated against “the transformation of Cyprus into a base for war” outside the US-sponsored security training facility CyCLOPS in Larnaca on Sunday. The protestors, carrying banners with ...

I have read with interest the latest book by Chrysostomos Pericleous called “Leaders Inferior to Circumstances”. The book covers the last 20 years of Cyprus’ political history. The author openly criticises ...

Former Disy leader Averof Neophytou on Wednesday night called for Cyprus to join Nato after the day’s meeting between President Nikos Christodoulides and United States President Joe Biden. “It ...

By Euripides Evriviades There is Nato, known to all, with 32 members. There is also the Nato Partnership for Peace, known to most, with 18 members. There is also the Nato Partners, ...

Britain’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer, hailed European unity on Thursday, saying deeper defence and security cooperation would better support Ukraine while shared intelligence could help tackle illegal migration. ...

The Kremlin said on Monday that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s remarks about talks on deploying more nuclear weapons were an escalation. NATO is in talks to deploy more ...

U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement on Thursday aimed at bolstering Ukraine’s defense against Russian invaders and getting Ukraine ...

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will ask allies to pledge a minimum of €40 billion ($43.37 billion) annually to fund military aid for Ukraine, an alliance source told Reuters on Thursday, as Nato ...

Sweden joined NATO in Washington on Thursday, two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced it to rethink its national security policy and conclude that support for the alliance ...

French President Emmanuel Macron opened the door to European nations sending troops to Ukraine, although he cautioned that there was no consensus at this stage as allies agreed to ramp ...

Nato joke aside, Trump’s isolationism nothing new in US Donald Trump’s rant in which he encouraged Russia to attack Nato member states failing to comply with their treaty ...

The Hungarian parliament can ratify Sweden’s NATO membership when it convenes for its new spring session later this month, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told his supporters on Saturday. “It’...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday blasted comments about NATO by his likely 2024 election opponent Donald Trump, calling them “dangerous” and “un-American” and saying they raised the stakes for the U....

Donald Trump told top European officials while he was U.S. president that the United States would never help Europe if it came under attack, according to a high-level EU ...

U.S. President Joe Biden and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the war in Gaza and Sweden’s application to join the NATO alliance in a phone call late Thursday, ...

Turkey has told Sweden it expects to ratify its long-delayed accession to the NATO military alliance within weeks, Sweden’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. Sweden and Finland asked to ...

The speaker of Turkey’s parliament Numan Kurtulmus will send a bill approving Sweden’s Nato membership bid to parliament’s foreign affairs commission on Wednesday, a source from the ...

Neophytos Loizides, professor in international Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent, was interviewed by the Cyprus Mail on the main questions of regional security for Cyprus How do you ...