Known as the 'Green Line' since a UN general marked it on a map in green pencil - the zone was extended in 1974 after Turkish forces invaded in response to a Greek-backed military coup.

Reliving Cyprus summers: 200km trek along Green Line. 12h. A quiet Sunday morning, a small three-star hotel in Yermasoyia on the ‘wrong’, ... 380,000 steps) along the Green Line. ...

NICOSIA — Cyprus signed a deal Thursday for Israel’s military to build an electronic surveillance system to monitor activity along the UN-patrolled Green Line across the divided Mediterranean ...

Ever since Cyprus gained independence from Britain in 1960, tension has boiled between Turkish and Greek populations on the Mediterranean island. Violent clashes between the two groups peaked in ...

Israel is to develop a land surveillance system for Cyprus’s defense establishment to stem the flow of asylum seekers and illegal goods from the Turkish-controlled north of the island, in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The deal prevents a disorderly default by Cyprus, and its exit from the eurozone. It establishes the ...

Peacekeepers last week in the Green Line between the internationally recognized south of Cyprus and the Turkish-occupied north. Nearly 30 asylum seekers are stranded in the zone.

The island of Cyprus has been divided along the 180km green line since 1974, when Turkish forces occupied the north of the country in response to a Greece-backed coup that aimed to unify the two ...