The deployment involves soldiers from the 12th Royal Artillery Regiment — the British leading anti-drone unit. The United Kingdom has sent elite drone warfare experts to the Middle East to protect bases from Iranian attacks,

Cyprus says two drones aimed at UK bases were destroyed, after a renewed alert around RAF Akrotiri. Greece announced the deployment of frigates and F-16s to Cyprus.

A British soldier stands guards at the main gate of the UK's RAF Akrotiri base after it was hit by a suspected drone strike early morning near Limassol, Cyprus, Monday.

The United Kingdom is deploying a warship and helicopters to Cyprus, the British government has said, as global concern continues to mount over the fallout from deadly US-Israel attacks on Iran and retaliatory Iranian strikes across the region.

Now, after nearly 66 years as an independent nation, Cyprus has found itself embroiled in another Middle Eastern maelstrom primarily because it hosts two large and significant U.K. military bases, the vestige of its British colonial past.

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