{"id":91850,"date":"2026-03-03T23:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/uk-sends-royal-navy-destroyer-hms-dragon-to-cyprus\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:00:40","slug":"uk-sends-royal-navy-destroyer-hms-dragon-to-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/uk-sends-royal-navy-destroyer-hms-dragon-to-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"UK sends Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dragon to Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cc13e4a56646e8ae1616b964e3dada2040d44592\/248_0_2982_2386\/master\/2982.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=dd9b8d25628d5cd27d751e62d2a1e3db\" alt=\"UK sends Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dragon to Cyprus\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">Politics<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">UK sends Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dragon to Cyprus<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Keir Starmer says vessel, which will arrive in about a week, will help defend bases on island after RAF Akrotiri was targeted by dronesUK politics live \u2013 latest updatesMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesA Royal Navy destroyer is expected in Cyprus next week after Keir Starmer announced it would be sent to defend the country and British bases there after hostile drones targeted RAF Akrotiri on Monday.The prime minister said that HMS Dragon, currently in the Channel, would be deployed alongside two Wildcat helicopters with counter-drone capabilities, after a phone call to the country\u2019s president, Nikos Christodoulides. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/03\/uk-considering-sending-royal-navy-destroyer-to-cyprus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics UK sends Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dragon to Cyprus Keir Starmer says vessel, which will arrive in about a week, will help defend bases on island after RAF Akrotiri was targeted by dronesUK politics live \u2013 latest updatesMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesA Royal Navy destroyer is expected in Cyprus next week after Keir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":91851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}