Cyprus offers facilities for evacuation as Iran bombings begin

Cyprus has activated its ‘Estia’ plan, wherein people are evacuated from conflict zones via Cyprus, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said, with the United States and Israel having launched an attack on Iran on Saturday morning.

He wrote in a post on social media that the plan is “activated in the event of an emergency or crisis, to allow the safe evacuation of people from nearby crisis areas from the wider Middle East region via Cyprus”.

In addition, he said, the Cypriot...