The meeting is expected to focus on “the recent Israeli military presence in Syria”. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

Soar over Nicosia, the last divided capital in Europe, where the Venetian-era city walls, bustling Ledra Street, and the ...

The foreign ministry on Saturday said it “welcomes” the latest six-monthly reports penned by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus and the UN’s good ...

Fifty years after war cleaved Cyprus along ethnic lines, tensions are flaring again along the 180-kilometer-long United Nations controlled buffer zone in an already tumultuous region.

The IDF has crossed into the buffer zone dividing Israel and Syria and occupied the area that, by international law, should be kept free from military presence.

The United Nations refugee agency says government authorities in ethnically divided Cyprus have rounded up dozens of migrants and pushed them back inside a U.N.-controlled buffer zone that they ...

Building bridges between communities in Cyprus On the island of Cyprus, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots live on either side of a UN-administered buffer zone.

Europe’s human rights watchdog urges Cyprus to let migrants stuck in UN buffer zone seek asylum By Associated Press Published October 30, 2024 4:10 PM ...

UNHCR spokeswoman Emilia Strovolidou told the Associated Press Friday that as many as 99 asylum seekers were “pushed back” into the buffer zone in the last three months.

The asylum seekers entered the European Union member country from the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north and crossed the buffer zone into the south to file their applications with the internationally ...