US private military personnel have been quietly arriving in Libya over the past few weeks, at a time when Washington is focusing again on security issues in the country. The presence of the Pentagon's favourite service provider, the private security company Amentum (ex-PAE), was reported by ...
The circumstances of the incident and the US military’s response, codenamed Operation Jukebox Lotus, continue to be controversial among certain domestic political factions. This is at least the second raid in Libya in the last 12 months to capture a figured accused of terrorism by the US ...
military outposts like South Korea and Italy. These American airmen have in recent years flown bombing missions to Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya from their bases in Britain. “The USAF presence in Britain isn’t just some remnant of the Cold War, it’s ongoing and very active,” Kate Hudson...
Currently, Erdogan maintains close security and political ties with the “Muslim Brotherhood” and the pro-Iran and pro-“Muslim Brotherhood” Qatar, while confronting Saudi Arabia in Libya, where they are both involved in a series of civil wars. *Notwithstanding the March 2023 resumption of ...
(as far as they can still be weakened), transactional US military presence, Bibi’s satisfaction and the scare of the Mullahs, short-term ending of the Russia/Ukraine conflict. As scary as these policies might look from the perspective of a mousehole, the more interesting they look when ...
Libya is reduced to a stateless territory, Ukraine is divided, and Syria, fallen into chaos, became the womb of one of the most powerful and perverse terrorist groups in history: Da’ish. All these and other factors led Russia to reassert itself on the world stage and take the lead in ...
members of the National Academy of Sciences and faculty and department heads of universities and educational institutions from New York to California, signed an open letter opposing Trump’s 90-day suspension of visas and other immigration benefits to all nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Som...
The U.S. Army has told units to prepare for deployment in anticipation of a decision to furtherincrease U.S. military presenceat the U.S.-Mexico border in the next 24 to 48 hours, CBS News has learned. A defense official said no additional orders have been handed out yet, but officia...
plan for countering ISIS’s growing presence in Libya, according to several administration officials. Libya is now “the area of most growing concern,” when it comes to ISIS, a senior defense official told CNN. Carter told reporters that ISIS is consolidating its presence in Libya and “...
When US President George W. Bush prepared to send troops into Iraq, there weren’t a lot of questions about what TV networks or talk radio hosts were influencing his decisions. When his successor, Barack Obama, contemplated military action in Libya, Syria, and other countries, there weren’t...