‘More bullets’: Analysts mull whether Russia will move to Libya after Syria
1 day ago · Libya has been locked in a power struggle of its own, one that the redeployment of Russia’s military from Syria to North Africa could upend. Libya has known little stability since its revolution ...
Fallout of Assad’s ouster in Syria ripples down the Mediterranean to Libya
6 days ago · The reports began trickling in barely 24 hours after Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad was ousted. “Several Assad regime officials arrive in Libya’s Benghazi,” read a headline on a local ...
Syria’s challenges are even greater than those Libya faced in 2011
6 days ago · In Libya, by contrast, rival authorities knew their country’s economy depended on oil and gas infrastructure – a factor that encouraged some level of interdependence. A fractured security landscape. Perhaps the clearest parallel between Libya and Syria is the security landscape. In both countries, a wide array of armed groups control territory.
Syria’s new leaders dissolve rebel factions, merge them under …
1 day ago · The consolidation, if confirmed, could spare Syria the kind of chaos suffered by other states in the region from feuding armed factions, including Libya. It would also fulfill a pledge made last ...
Russian military has begun large-scale withdrawal from Syria, US …
Dec 16, 2024 · Two of the US officials said that the Russians have begun moving naval assets from Syria to Libya, and a separate defense official said Moscow has increased pressure on Libyan National Army ...
Its Syrian Bases in Doubt, Russia Sends Cargo Flights to Libya
6 days ago · A military official at al-Khadim air base in eastern Libya said that a half-dozen Russian planes — some coming from Russia and some from Syria — had arrived carrying military equipment since ...
Can Syria avoid becoming another Libya or Iraq? A week after …
Dec 17, 2024 · After the fall of the Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, the world was moved by emotional scenes of liberation — families reuniting after years of separation and former prisoners walking free ...
Libya–Syria relations - Wikipedia
President Bashar al-Assad, the Ba'athist Syrian head of state, responded to the Syrian civil war in a manner frequently compared by protesters to Muammar Gaddafi's crackdown in February 2011 and beyond. [1] Syria voted at the United Nations General Assembly to accredit the NTC as representative of Libya on 16 September 2011. [citation needed] However, Assad's government has allowed Al-Rai TV ...
Exclusive | Russia Withdraws Air-Defense Systems, Other Advanced ...
Dec 18, 2024 · Russian cargo planes have flown air-defense equipment, including radars for S-400 and S-300 interceptor systems, from Syria to bases in eastern Libya controlled by Moscow-backed Libyan warlord ...
Syria After Assad - The New Yorker
Dec 13, 2024 · Syria, a geostrategic centerpiece in the Middle East, was abruptly upended. So, too, was the region. Now the scramble is on to define the future of Syria, quickly, to prevent ethnic, political,...