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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Tripoli
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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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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As Long as Qaddafi Is around, Rebels Can Only Control Tripoli and Benghazi
A large Libyan military convoy of dozens of vehicles crossed the southern border into Niger Tuesday, Sept. 6, escorted by
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Pro-Al Qaeda brigades control Qaddafi Tripoli strongholds seized by rebels
Members of the Al Qaeda-linked Libyan Islamic Fighting Group – LIFG, are in control of the former strongholds of Muammar
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How the CIA Stripped Qaddafi of His Tripoli Divisions by the “Waqil Massiri” Maneuver
By Saturday, Aug. 20, when Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard, NATO's Canadian commander in Libya, gave the signal for the advance
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Saif al-Islam Qaddafi appears in Tripoli: I was never detained. We are winning
In an extraordinary turnabout in the Tripoli standoff between West-backed Libyan rebels and Muammar Qaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam turned
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Moscow opposes Western anti-Syrian motions because of Tripoli bombing
Russia is opposed to any UN Security Council resolution on Syria," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told journalists at
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Qaddafi launches jihad with sea barrage on Benghazi
In a long, fiery speech broadcast by Libyan state TV Tuesday, Libya's ruler Col. Muammar Qaddafi declared war on his
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