#National Guard

A shot went off from a soldier’s gun inside Larnaca airport on Tuesday morning, prompting an immediate police investigation into the incident. No injuries were reported, according to a ...

The National Guard will be equipped with new weapons systems like drones to be able to deal with asymmetric threats, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Tuesday. Petrides said the ...

Human resources are the National Guard’s most crucial asset, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Friday, speaking as he awarded green berets to this year’s recruits who have ...

Just three out of 168 politically exposed persons who did not report for compulsory military reservist duty failed to report once again after being identified by the audit service, whose report ...

As long as Cyprus remains under occupation and Turkey continues with new threats, the National Guard must remain at the highest readiness and act as the main force of deterrence ...

The defence minister has called for Cyprus to boost spending – currently at almost half a billion euros – and secure new equipment in light of what he described as Turkey’s ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides has appointed three independent investigators to reopen the case of the death of a 26-year-old soldier in 2005, which appears to have been the result of foul play. ...

Members of Cyprus and Egypt’s special forces took part in joint military drill in Lythrodontas on Wednesday called Ptolemaios 2021. The drill marked the culmination of two weeks of joint ...

Members of the Special Operations Team of the Cyprus National Guard (MYK) and US Navy SEALs participated in a joint military training exercise in Limassol port on Friday. The joint ...

The National Guard is taking part in a multinational exercise called Bright Star, currently taking place in Egypt. The Defence Ministry said the participation in the exercise, which will run ...

The military balance on the island remained unchanged in 2021, with the Turkish forces in the north outnumbering the National Guard by 3.5 to one, according to a Cypriot Centre of Strategic ...

Lebanon`s armed forces chief Joseph Aoun is paying an official visit to Cyprus accompanied by a three-member delegation at the invitation of the National Guard chief, Lieutenant General Demokritos ...

By Stavros Nikolaou New army conscripts were sworn in on Thursday morning at separate ceremonies at different army camps because of coronavirus restrictions, as the defence minister highlighted the vital ...

Defence ministry spokesman Christos Pieris on Monday confirmed that 30 new army recruits suffered food poisoning after a meal at the Larnaca camp where they had registered but called it an ...

New army recruits started reporting for duty on Monday at recruitment centres around the island. Conscripts all over the island are reporting to camps in Paphos, Larnaca, Limassol and Nicosia ...

The forestry department on Friday said the National Guard would start assisting in the forest monitoring programme aimed at preventing fires. According to the forestry department the programme concerns drone ...

The death of a soldier 16 years ago, which appears to have been the result of strangulation and not suicide as initially thought, should be investigated, and resolved as a matter ...

The US on Thursday welcomed in their Nicosia embassy, the first eight officers from the National Guard who are going to participate in the International Military Education and Training (IMET) ...

Chief of the National Guard Lieutenant General Dimokritos Zervakis was on Sunday in Egypt after an invitation from his counterpart there Lieutenant General, Mohammed Farid Hegazy. In addition to a ...

Cyprus and France successfully carried out a joint air-defence exercise across the Republic, simulating military installations of the National Guard being attacked by figher jets, the defence ministry said on ...

More than 100 members of the national guard have tested positive for coronavirus, while more are in self-isolation as close contacts, the defence ministry said on Friday. Some 135 people tested positive ...

For the fifth year in a row, the air force of the national guard is taking part in the multinational military exercise Iniohos, which takes place every year in Greece. ...

The defence ministry issued a reminder to reservists who have not reported for duty to do so by the end of the month or face sanctions. The announcement concerns those ...

The Animal Party and the defence ministry discussed the implementation of a scheme to provide a special unit for animal welfare in the national guard, the party said on Friday. ...