Some factions seen courting Qatar but Ankara sticks with Fathi Bashagha as its man in Libya.
More signs of sharp divisions and rifts between power figures in western Libya are quickly emerging.
So far, Erdoğan’s fanaticism has come without any cost to him internationally, or any damage to his domestic political survivability. He has every ideological and pragmatic reason to keep up his love affair with Hamas.
Turkey is in the midst of a major naval construction program, seeking to restore regional maritime influence lost since the collapse of the Ottoman empire, and the project is already generating regional tensions.
Tous les indicateurs devraient fortement se dégrader en 2020 à cause de la crise sanitaire et des mesures des autorités, avant de se redresser en 2021.
Plus sombres qu’en juin dernier, les nouvelles prévisions macroéconomiques pour le Maroc prévoient une récession plus brutale pour 2020 à cause de la crise sanitaire. L’économie du pays devrait se contracter de 6,3 %, et non de 5,2 % comme la banque centrale marocaine l’avait annoncé, en raison d’un « redémarrage plus lent que prévu » face à la pandémie. Des prévisions amenées à évoluer tant la situation est encore incertaine.
Turkey is preparing a large-scale offensive in Syria in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo.
Greek Defense Minister Evangelos Apostolakis says he is concerned with Turkey’s purchase of Russian-built S-400 air defence system.
In a wide-ranging interview with Open TV on Thursday night, Apostolakis said Ankara’s acquisition of the system will completely change the situation in terms of control of the air space over the Aegean. At the same time, he stressed the need for Greece to acquire F-35s or other aircraft to boost its air defense so that there is a balance of power.
The agreement appears to be on hold because of the opposition of prominent figures in Fayez al-Sarraj’s Government of National Accord (GNA).
Our sources in Syria, as well as a number of Russian media, claim that yesterday, on September 21, the Turkish artillery units fired on the main defense point of the Syrian army in the city of Sarakib.
The Turkish news agency Anadolu has accused Russia of sending several hundred Syrian mercenaries to eastern Libya.
Anadolu claims that according to local sources, about four hundred Syrians have already arrived in Libya. It is reported that all these people are mercenaries and were trained in a special camp near the Syrian city of Kamyshly. The Turkish agency claims that the instructors for the Syrian fighters were Russian officers. After training, all the cadets were sent to Khmeimim, and from there they were transferred to Libya.
On September 21, the military junta that overthrew the Mali government of President Ibrahim Keita announced a transitional government. It is headed by retired Colonel Bah N’Daw, with junta leader Colonel Assimi Goïta as his vice president.