BBC journalists were among the first to witness these defensive missions being conducted in the air The loud screech of a Typhoon and F-35 jet rips through the night sky above RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.

Britain’s near-daily surveillance flights over Gaza, flown from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, have prompted fresh questions about how the intelligence gathered is used and whether it is being passed to the ...

An RAF base in Cyprus was hit by a drone strike hours after Sir Keir Starmer let the US use British bases to attack Iran. RAF Akrotiri was hit overnight by an unmanned Iranian-made Shahed drone, which ...

A file photo showing a Voyager tanker departing RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. The single-runway airbase was struck by a UAV on 1 March, which did not cause air operations ...