The geopolitical importance of Cyprus has been both a blessing and a curse, sparking centuries of conflict over control of ...

Just as in India in the days of the Raj, the British in Cyprus also had their hill stations where they went to escape the summer heat. Lieutenant-General Sir Garnet Wolseley established the first such ...

European colonialism in the Horn of Africa region has divided the historic land of Somali people into various territories like current Djibouti, Somalia, as well as some Somali inhibited regions that ...

Britain will provide intelligence to a newly formed unit in Cyprus tasked with preventing ... years by a U.K. prime minister to the former British colony. A statement later said that Britain ...

In the Eastern Mediterranean, they carved out a base on Cyprus. In the Indian Ocean, they pressured Mauritius, a former British colony, to sell the Chagos Islands for just £3m. To build a ...

The naked assertion of colonial ... Island of Cyprus in 1942. [AP Photo] Today, long after the Stalinist bureaucracy completed the counterrevolutionary restoration of capitalism, British ...

These Nuragic Sardinians may even have established a small colony ... British, Scandinavian and Iberian raw materials and products (including tin, copper and amber) being shipped to Sardinia for ...

Public Domain April 1, 2025, marks 70 years since the commencement of the EOKA (National Organization of Cypriot Fighters) struggle against British colonial rule in Cyprus from 1955 to 1959. Its goal ...

Soon after the diplomatic mess-up, President Salva Kiir of South Sudan dismissed his foreign affairs minister, Ramadan Mohamed Abdallah Goc, according to Sudans Post. The report said that although the ...

After the signing of the Lausanne Peace Treaty, Cyprus officially became a British colony, and in 1960 the island gained independence. Why does England need military field headquarters in Cyprus now?