The Russian intervention in Libya will be requested through the UN to lift the international weapons embargo on the army, Ahmad Al-Mesmari, the army spokesman, said in a statement. Al-Mesmari's statement came days after his interview with Russian news agency Sputnik, where the spokesman called...
Libya has sunk into chaos since Muammar Gaddaft was deposed by a Westernted military intervention in 2011. Since then, the Libyan crisis has escalated into an internationalised armed conflict, and a major power struggle between Turkey, Qatar, Italy, and Russia, Egypt, Franc...
the latter having been created by themselves and NATO when they launched military operations against Libya in 2011. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are three countries with
After his visit to Mali, run by a sympathetic junta, Mody warned against a military intervention, vowing that Niger would do what it takes not to become “a new Libya,” Niger’s state television reported Friday. Article content Niger has been seen as the West’s ...
“Soviet-North Korean Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance”, signed between North Korea’s dynastic founder Kim Il-sung and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the 2024 treaty revived a provision that triggers automatic military intervention in emergency situations. Its article 4 states: “...
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Firstly, Assad has a stronger position, which is in Russia's interest. The Kremlin is also interested in a negotiated settlement to a conflict which it believes cannot be brought to an end through military intervention. Through its partial withdrawal, Russia can force Assad's hand and make him...
It is the built-in tendency of intervention by the capitalist state and its agencies like Oranga Tamariki. It falls to a revived movement of the whole working class to oversee such situations and to ensure that the ties between children and their whānau are maintained as far as possible ...
“If you don’t know what will happen next, why change what there is?”the Russian president asked, adding that Syria could“be a second Libya or another Afghanistan”if Washington and its allies had succeeded in removing Assad from power. Russia has supported the Syrian government in the co...
The fast-expanding insurgency in Mozambique threatens to disrupt crucial foreign investment in the country’s natural gas reserves, believed to be worth billions of dollars. Multiple sources have told CNN that the Russian intervention has not begun well. Two contractors, ages 28 and 31, have been...