Russia Spreads Its Wings from Syria to Libya – and across North Africa
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s influence-buying tactics in Libya baffle many watchers, including his own people, because he appears to be
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Benghazi
A Qaddafi Comeback Bid after Seven Years in the Wilderness
The old guard that ruled Libya under Muammar Qaddafi is beginning to trickle back into public life, drawing on the
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New Putin move to win a military base in Libya
Libyan Gen Khalifa Hafter arrived in Moscow Sunday, Nov. 26, with a request for Russian arms and military support for
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UAE Acquires an Eastern Libyan Air Base Shared with France
The enigmatic Libyan general Khalifa Belqasim Haftar, who commands a private army called “Operation Dignity” based in the eastern town
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Neither Obama nor Putin Has a Strategy for Destroying ISIS
Although Western leaders vow night and day to crush the Islamic State once and for all, the terrorist organization, while
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US Ground Troops for Obama’s New anti-ISIS Front in Libya
With the Russians in charge of the war on ISIS in Syria and the US-trained Iraqi Sunni Hashid al-Ashari leading
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Egypt’s El-Sisi is the Third Arab Ruler in the Islamist State’s Crosshairs
Up until Wednesday, July 1, just two Arab rulers and two Arab capitals were in the sights of the Islamic
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