A Cypriot official says more than 1,000 Syrian nationals have withdrawn their applications for asylum or international protection because they intend to return to their homeland.

President Joe Biden has issued a directive that for the first time allows Cyprusto buy arms from the U.S. government and get surplus American military equipment in a move welcomed as promoting stability in the eastern Mediterranean.

As Syria begins recovering from 50 years of autocratic rule by the Assad family, an international envoy says Christians and other religious groups expect their rights and freedoms to be preserved under a new constitutional settlement.

The European Union must “actively and systematically support” Lebanon’s new President Joseph Aoun, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday. Christodoulides was the first foreign leader to meet Aoun following his election as president on Thursday,

Gaza's Health Ministry says more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, with no end in sight to the 15-month conflict.

Israel’s army confirmed Friday that one of the bodies recovered from Gaza earlier this week was that of 23-year-old hostage Hamzah AlZayadni.

Cyprus has adopted tougher policies in the last few years to stem the arrival of thousands of migrants either by boat from neighboring Lebanon, Syria or Turkey via the island’s breakaway Turkish Cypriot north.

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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP ... to stem the arrival of thousands of migrants either by boat from neighboring Lebanon or Syria or from Turkey via the island’s breakaway Turkish Cypriot north.

Police on Thursday announced that between 4pm and 9pm, there will be short-term road closures in Larnaca and Nicosia, ahead of and during the arrival of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to the island for an unplanned visit.

Mimis Domazos, the Greek soccer legend and a Panathinaikos icon is hospitalized in critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest on Wednesday, January 22, a statement released by the hospital says. Domazos, who turned 83 on Wednesday, is intubated at...

As Syria begins recovering from 50 years of autocratic rule by the Assad family, an international envoy says Christians and other religious groups expect their rights and freedoms to be