#weapons

Norway’s decision to lift its arms embargo on Cyprus is a “good development”, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on Saturday. “Norway had decided in areas where there are war ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Thursday described the United States’ decision to allow the Republic of Cyprus to purchase military hardware directly as “tragicomic”. “The Greek Cypriot administration in ...

Cyprus has been authorised to buy military hardware directly from the United States government after joining three programmes run by the country’s department of defence on Wednesday night. As ...

Police are attempting to locate three poachers who pointed their weapons at a game warden on Sunday, causing him to lose his footing and tumble down 100 metres along the Fukasa ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a third suspect in connection with the discovery of what authorities have described as the largest weapons cache found on the island. The 42-year-old man, is ...

The G3 military rifle included in the recovered weapons and explosives found in an Oroklini cemetary did not originate from the national guard, media reported on Wednesday. Instead, it is ...

Spain has refused permission for an Israel-bound ship carrying arms to call at the southeastern port of Cartagena, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Thursday. Albares confirmed reports that ...

Cyprus served as a transit for US missiles delivered to Israel as the country prepared its defences for the coming Iranian barrage last weekend, Israeli media reported on Thursday evening. ...

Canada on Monday said it had dropped weapons export controls to Turkey, including drone optical technology, according to a notice posted online, saying that from now on it would review ...

Serbian authorities on Tuesday detained Kosovo Serb politician Milan Radoicic and accused him of manufacturing firearms and trafficking them to Kosovo,after he said he was involved in a deadly ...

Four people have been arrested and charged in the north after being found selling weapons to a wanted person in the Republic. In addition, the suspects attempted to convert counterfeit €1,300 ...

Limassol police uncovered an old weapons cache containing up to 50 guns, including ammunition and hand grenades. Officers found the items on Thursday following a tip-off and subsequently visited a warehouse ...

An Israeli professor arrested at the Larnaca International airport after Interpol issued an arrest warrant against him on suspicion of arms trafficking to China and Libya has rubbished the charges ...

Three Turkish Cypriots, two men and one woman, were arrested in Greece while attempting to cross the Greek-Turkish border with weapons, it emerged on Monday. According to a statement released ...

The United States will announce a new security assistance package for Ukraine of about $3 billion as early as Wednesday, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, in what would be ...

Paphos police are investigating after a 48-year-old man reported that several weapons and ammunition were stolen from his house among other valuable items. The man told police that unknown people ...

A squad of FBI experts is in Cyprus to inspect an aircraft at Paphos airport with potential links to arms smuggling to Libya, police confirmed on Tuesday. The small plane ...

Police arrested three suspects and seized three pistols and 1.5 kilos of crystal meth during an operation in Limassol on Wednesday morning. Officers raided six addresses and arrested two foreign men, 37 ...