annexation

The past couple of years in Cyprus have been filled with rising tensions, including threats of annexation by Turkey. Due to Cyprus' guarantor status, any changes in the country’s borders would be tantamount to a declaration of war, particularly against...

Greece joined the US and its NATO allies in strongly condemning the annexation of the eastern regions of Ukraine by Russia on Friday. Greece "will never recognize the illegal annexation of Ukraine's territories," Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tweeted on...

Vladimir Putin declared four regions of eastern Ukraine to be a part of Russia in a major policy speech at the Kremlin on Friday. He claimed that the people of the four Ukrainian regions he's planning to annex made their...

Russia's Vladimir Putin will hold a signing ceremony on Friday annexing around 15 percent of Ukraine's territory, the biggest annexation attempted since the Second World War. Putin will formally be annexing four more areas of Ukraine after self-styled referendums condemned...

Turkey would consider annexing northern Cyprus if talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots failed to reach a deal on reunification of the island, Turkey's European Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis told a Turkish Cypriot newspaper Cypriot President Demetris Christofias and Turkish...