{"id":456990,"date":"2026-03-04T11:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456990\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:47:11","slug":"us-issues-cyprus-travel-warning-as-middle-east-war-edges-closer-to-europe-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456990\/","title":{"rendered":"US issues Cyprus travel warning as Middle East war edges closer to Europe \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyprus is increasingly being pulled into the conflict. <\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/keir-starmer-iran-uk-british-base-cyprus-hit-by-drone-strike\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drone strike<\/a> hit a runway at the British RAF Akrotiri base earlier, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides said, prompting Nicosia to cancel an informal meeting of EU affairs ministers. <\/p>\n<p>U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-considers-warship-cyprus-iran-threat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deploy the destroyer HMS Dragon<\/a>, while French President Emmanuel Macron announced France would send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-sends-anti-missile-anti-drone-systems-and-a-frigate-to-cyprus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a frigate and air-defense systems <\/a>to the island.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-sends-anti-missile-anti-drone-systems-and-a-frigate-to-cyprus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greek F-16s now on the island<\/a> and European warships moving into the eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus will continue to be the epicenter of EU concern about the war spilling over onto its territory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cyprus is increasingly being pulled into the conflict. A drone strike hit a runway at the British RAF&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5704,10521,8926,142,418,154809,819,59,57,58,585,420,50,471,1351,34123,56,54,158,55,636,163220],"class_list":["post-456990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-conflict","tag-cyprus","tag-department","tag-drones","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-eu-affairs","tag-france","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-iran","tag-keir-starmer","tag-news","tag-safety","tag-security","tag-u-s-foreign-policy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-war","tag-war-in-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}