The Turkish Foreign Ministry yesterday condemned the European Union's statement on the partial reopening of the Maras region in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), Anadolu news agency reported....

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday raised its travel warning level for Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories due to the rising number of COVID-19...

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry voiced deep concerns on Wednesday about a planned change in the abandoned resort of Varosha in Turkish Cyprus, Egypt Today has reported. Varosha contains derelict...

Turkish Cypriot authorities announced on Tuesday the partial reopening of the abandoned town of Varosha, Al Jazeera reports. Varosha, an eerie collection of derelict high-rise hotels and residences, has been deserted...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has reassured his Greek counterpart Katerina Sakellaropoulou that Israel continues to side with Greece and Cyprus in their dispute with Turkey, local media have reported....

"Those who criticise Turkey with the Cyprus Peace Operation continue to distort the historical facts", the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), Ersin Tatar, said on...

What: Turkey's invasion of the north of Cyprus following a military coup which aimed to annex the island to Greece When: 20 July 1974 Where: Cyprus What happened? Upon...

Greece should give up its maximalist claims and conceive ways to benefit from regional resources together with Turkey, said Turkey's communications director. Turkey wants good relations with all neighbors,...

Four people were found dead as a huge fire raged for a second day in Cyprus, razing tracts of forest in a blaze one official called the worst on...

Negotiations on Cyprus' future can start only if the sovereign equality of Turkish Cypriots is accepted, Turkish Cypriot President Ersin Tatar said yesterday, Turkish News Agency-Cyprus (TAK) reports. According to the...

Official negotiations on the Cyprus issue can start only after the recognition of the sovereign equality of the Turkish side, the Turkish Cypriot president said Saturday, reports Anadolu Agency....

Turkish Cypriots are in favor of "the new policy", a two-state solution, on Cyprus as decades of negotiations for a federation failed to resolve the Cyprus issue, said the...

The Lebanese army yesterday said it had thwarted an attempt to smuggle 11 irregular migrants out of the country by water from the northern city of Tripoli. "The Lebanese...

Cypriot authorities forced a boat carrying 56 migrants to return to Lebanon from where they had set off on Sunday. Authorities checked the documents of those onboard the boat...

Cruise operator Royal Caribbean is cancelling a new line that had been scheduled to run from Israel to Greece and Cyprus from next month, citing regional security concerns, reports...

European Union (EU) member states' pushback of asylum seekers and refugees seeking to enter Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the death of over 2,000, according to a report by...

Last week, an informal meeting began in Geneva linked to the Cyprus peace talks. It was an initiative by UN Secretary-General António Guterres as he seeks common ground for...

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said yesterday there is "no common ground yet" to resume official negotiations to resolve the Cyprus issue. "The truth is that at the...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday that Ankara fully supports the two-state solution to end the dispute over the island of Cyprus. "We fully support the Turkish Cypriots' vision,...

The leaders of Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriots met in Geneva yesterday to find a common ground on the divided Mediterranean island with the support of the UN, four years after the...

The UK supports a "comprehensive, just and lasting resolution of the Cyprus problem," a British government statement said ahead of unofficial talks that were to commence yesterday in Geneva. " talks...

The UK can assist in the resolution of the Cyprus dispute by recognising the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), the Turkish Cypriot President Ersin Tatar said. Speaking to...

The foreign ministers of Israel and the UAE are meeting with their Greek and Cypriot counterparts today, the Times of Israel has reported. The two-day meeting is being held...

Turkey criticised a court ruling on the closure of Quran courses in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), saying the decision "is the product of an ideological and...

Cyprus has been stretched beyond its limits in accommodating asylum seekers and migrants and needs support from its European Union partners, a government official said on Friday, reported Reuters....

The EU is ready to provide "whatever assistance" it can to Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders and the UN, and it also needs to become involved in the UN-led...

Cyprus, Greece, and Israel today signed an initial agreement to build the world's longest and deepest underwater power cable that will traverse the Mediterranean seabed at a cost of...

The visit of Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El-Molla to Israel carried many political and economic implications. The visit resulted in the signing of an agreement between...

The United Nations will convene a meeting of parties in the Cyprus dispute in Geneva in late April, the first such meeting since 2017 when talks about the divided...

Since the restart of exploratory talks between Turkey and Greece this year, Greece has continued to escalate tension in the region, Anadolu reported sources from Turkish National Defence Ministry saying yesterday....

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that the only way to solve the dispute over Cyprus is to establish two states, Anadolu reported. Speaking during a meeting of his ruling...

The Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus said on Tuesday that Greece and Greek Cypriots have no intention of resolving the island's issue by agreement, Anadolu...