NICOSIA, Cyprus – Capt. Adamos Marneros gazed with foreboding at the dots on the radar screen of his passenger jet as it prepared for landing on Cyprus. It was before dawn on July 20, 1974, and the ...

"This airport has been closed since 1974, when we saw some of the most heaviest fighting between the sides, and it was in 1974 that the United Nations force commander at the time declared the area ...

Elizabeth Spehar, U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNFICYP Mission poses with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar in the buffer ...

A large passenger jet sits silent and still on the edge of a sun-beaten track. It won’t fly again — its engines have been stripped down, its wings wrecked and weathered by time. Nearby, shafts of ...

Eerie images reveal the remains of Nicosia International Airport, where planes have been left to rot since the site was abandoned in 1974. The once-bustling transport hub, located in the Lakatamia ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Capt. Adamos Marneros gazed with foreboding at the dots on the radar screen of his passenger jet as it prepared for landing on Cyprus. It was before dawn on July 20, 1974, and ...

These eerie pictures reveal the inside of an abandoned airport that has gone untouched for 50 years. Just shy of 10km west of the Cypriot capital city of Nicosia, Nicosia International ceased its ...

Flags of Turkey and breakaway North Cyprus hang on the facade of the new terminal for its inauguration - Copyright AFP Birol BEBEK Flags of Turkey and breakaway North ...