Cyprus, long seen as a stable country, is now emerging as a strategic frontline — caught between regional tensions, global powers and its own unresolved north-south division.
The British sovereign base areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia cover around 3% of the Republic of Cyprus, in the south of the island. They go well beyond the perimeter of the bases, overlapping on almost 60% of the municipality of Kourion, home to 40,000 people.
