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The Russian presence raises concern in Tripoli. The Libyan National Army, led by Marshal Khalifa Haftar, showcased Russian ...
The political and military fault lines that divide Libya are increasingly shaped by Turkey and Russia, as both work to ...
Libya is sliding back into civil war as Haftar’s forces advance on Tripoli, global powers remain passive, and oil politics ...
A sweeping display of arms and alliances in Benghazi reflects Khalifa Haftar’s effort to project statehood, Moscow’s deeper ...
Haddad, met on Wednesday in Tripoli with the Russian ambassador to Libya, Aydar Aganin. According to a post by the Russian ...
Russia is moving to expand its military presence in eastern Libya, a plan that could lead to a naval base, giving it a significant foothold on Europe’s southern doorstep. A defense accord is ...
The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime and the increase in Russian Libya involvement may seem like unrelated phenomena. However, Russia’s shift towards Libya is a direct reaction to ...
This month, the UN Special Envoy for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, resigned his position with visible frustration. Bathily was charged with delivering the troubled country to long-delayed elections ...
On Sunday, September 17 – a week after “Libya’s 9/11” as the Derna disaster has been dubbed – Russian Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov himself was in town, meeting Haftar at ...
That plane, one of a class of aircraft known by the NATO designation Candid, flew from Haftar’s Khadim airbase in Libya to the Syrian coastal city of Latakia – where Russia has a major airbase ...
Military personnel supervise the arrival of aid carried by a Russian Ilyushin Il-76TD transport aircraft for survivors of the floods that submerged Libya's eastern city of Derna. The aircraft ...
He also said that the national oil company doesn’t deal directly with Russian refineries. “We only deal with international suppliers, which prioritize their importing shipments to Libya from ...