For Thabit, an Assyrian Christian, the 3,000-year-old city – which once formed the capital of an Assyrian empire reaching from Egypt to parts of modern-day Iran and Turkey – was a source of pride.

The Cypriot government announced on Friday that Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos had made an official visit to Tanzania – the first by a Cypriot foreign minister to the east African country.Kombos ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Wednesday held a meeting with Tanzanian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Thabit Kombo.Kombos attended the meeting on behalf of the European Union’s foreign affairs ...