RAF Akrotiri, with its massive runway, is a prime component of the U.K.'s complex of bases in Cyprus, including Episkopi Garrison in the west and Dhekelia Garrison in the east. Its breadth measures ...

The United Kingdom will allow U.S. forces to use British military bases for defensive airstrikes against Iran.

“Our force protection in the region is at the highest level and the base has responded to defend our people." ...

The US is likely to use RAF Fairford as one of its bases for "defensive" strikes on Iranian missile sites, the BBC ...

Operation Kipion has effectively been suspended as the Royal Navy has withdrawn its two vessels from the Gulf. The frigate HMS Lancaster was decommissioned in December 2025, and the minesweeper HMS ...

This is the British government protecting British interests and British lives', Starmer says in a recorded message on the UK's involvement in the Iran conflict ...

Retired British Army Col. Richard Kemp, who commanded U.K. forces in Afghanistan in the early 2000s, is warning about the current sad state of his country's military. In a Wednesday piece for The ...

The government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer risks being dragged deeper into the conflict, after allowing the U.S. military to use British bases for “defensive” purposes.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday that his country has accepted a U.S. request to use British bases for defensive strikes against Iranian missiles in storage depots or launchers.

Britain’s Royal Air Force base Akrotiri in Cyprus was hit by a suspected drone strike overnight, causing limited damage and no casualties, Cypriot authorities and the UK’s Ministry of Defense say.