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Cyprus National Guard: Joint training with US Armed Forces and the New Jersey National Guard
Cyprus’s National Guard has held a series of joint courses with US Armed Forces and New Jersey National Guard personnel,…
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Lebanese Armed Forces chief officially visits Cyprus
General Rodolph Haykal, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, made an official visit to Cyprus from October 6 to 8…
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Cyprus reportedly orders a third Barak MX, Drone Dome and Lite Beam lasers, and plans Iron Dome to replace its Russian BUKs
According to Cypriot press reports on October 11, the government has ordered a third Barak MX battery, Drone Dome systems…
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Cyprus National Guard to hold four days of live-fire drills at Kalo Chorio for exercise IRIS-2026
The Cyprus National Guard General Staff announced on October 11 that live-fire drills will take place by day from Monday,…
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Cyprus: Study to greatly upgrade the Mari naval base so it can host large warships
Cyprus’s Ministry of Defence has awarded a year-long study to expand the Evangelos Florakis naval base at Mari so it…
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Two 14th-century icons stolen after the Turkish invasion returned to Cyprus
Two Byzantine icons of the Evangelists Matthew and Mark, stolen from Kyrenia after the 1974 Turkish invasion and traced to…
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Analysis: Barak MX, the common air-defence “dome” of Greece and Cyprus with missiles out to 150 km that troubles Ankara, with IAI’s official video
Analysis: IAI’s official video of the Barak MX, its four interceptors from 15 to 150 km, the architecture of the…
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Üstel calls scenarios of an Israeli strike on the occupied north “dangerous” and attacks Greek and Cypriot armaments
Ünal Üstel, the “prime minister” of the breakaway regime in the occupied north of Cyprus, says discussions in Greek and…
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Oruç Reis off Kyrenia: Turkish minister says a gas pipeline to the occupied north could carry Cypriot gas to Europe
Turkey’s seismic research vessel Oruç Reis has reached waters off Kyrenia to survey the route of a planned gas pipeline…
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HMS Dragon returns to Portsmouth after 214 days, from defending the Cyprus bases to the Arabian Sea
The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dragon returned to Portsmouth on Friday, October 9, after 214 days away. Her deployment began…
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Cyprus and Israel back at the table over “Aphrodite”: new round of talks next week
Cyprus and Israel will hold a new round of online talks next week on the cross-border gas reservoir between Cyprus’s…
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Mitsotakis on the GSI: “It is no longer only a Greek and Cypriot project, it is a European one”
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a SKAI interview on October 9 that the Great Sea Interconnector is a European…