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...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Officials in Libya’s U.N.-supported government say they plan to confront Moscow over the alleged deployment of Russian mercenaries fighting alongside their opponents in the country’s civil war.
Military Intervention in Libya The conflict in Libya is by far the bloodiestin a sequence of recent uprisings againstregimes in the Middle East and NorthAfrica. Beginning in the port cit... Metcalfe 被引量: 3发表: 2011年 EUROPE INTHE CROSSHAIRS (By Polina Khimshiashvili. RBC Daily, May 30...
In September 2015 Russia’s Syria intervention was Putin’s “strategic surprise”, as Putin committed Russia’s military to coalitional expeditionary warfare outside the historic border of 400-year-old empire. In February 2022, Putin was the strategic decision-maker regarding the “SVO”, gambling...
“Russia is more deliberate in Libya as they invoke Gadhafi -era relationships and debts to obtain economic and military contracts,” Waldhauser said, referring to the former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi who was ousted in a NATO-backed military intervention in 2011. ...
"It is necessary to once again caution that military intervention under false and fabricated pretexts in Syria, where the Russian servicemen stay at the request of the legitimate government, is absolutely unacceptable and may trigger the gravest consequences," the ministry said. rlier on Sunday, ...
“if suicide took place let the city police take charge and secure whatever there was in the way of documents, but on no account for us to take the initiative.” It was only due to the combined direct intervention of Stephenson and Norman Robertson (head of External Aff...
This article is also available in Arabic (العربية) at Free Syrian Translators As Russia equips the world’s authoritarian regimes with the means to discourage Western intervention, China is selling them one of the worst tools of oppression against their own people: artillery. ...
The flow of undocumented migrants from Africa trying to cross the Mediterranean from the coast of Libya to Italian, Greek and Maltese territory seems unstoppable. Two factors in the problem however have been western (particlarly American meddling in the internal affairs of African states, and wester...
Russia's initial diplomatic support to Assad was motivated by the need to preserve its international status after NATO's perceived betrayal in Libya, but Moscow involvement grew as it identified the Syrian conflict as an opportunity to redefine its role as a power broker in the Middle East. ...