Tripoli could request vehicles, equipment and weapons for use in army, navy and air operations as well as intelligence.
Turkey has moved closer to providing military support for Libya’s internationally recognised government after a bilateral deal was sent to the Libyan parliament. The agreement includes provisions for launching a “quick reaction force” – if requested by Tripoli.
The defence of the Tunisian aeronautical engineer, Muhammad Zuari, accused France’s ambassador of being involved in the assassination of Zuari, which took place three years ago.
The Pentagon paid a UK PR firm half a billion dollars to create fake terrorist videos in Iraq in a secret propaganda campaign exposed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
Un véhicule blindé a sauté sur un engin explosif ce samedi matin, dans le sud-est du Mali. L’un des occupants, sérieusement touché, va être évacué par avion vers la métropole.
Les Forces armées maliennes (FAMa) ont déclaré, dans un communiqué, avoir neutralisé vendredi cinq terroristes et détruit une base des groupes armés terroristes à Parou, dans la région centrale de Mopti.
Lors du 4e congrès du mouvement indépendantiste MNLA, le chef du bureau de la mission de l’ONU à Kidal a qualifié le représentant de l’Etat de « délégation venue du Mali », ce qui sous-entend que Kidal n’est pas une localité malienne. Vive émoi et condamnations au sein de la classe politique et des institutions se multiplient depuis.
The latest attack in London was a lethal mix of religious dissimulation and Western naïveté. It also, one hopes, buries all the British illusions of deradicalizing jihadists. As the Times reported, the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), the so-called “nudge unit” formerly part of the Cabinet Office, had examined 33 deradicalization programs across the UK and found that only two were supposedly successful.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has suggested that relations between Moscow and NATO are “not just halted but…degrading every day,” citing a falloff that began “about five years ago.”
UPDATE, December 16: In the originally posted version of this article, I criticized a Norwegian translation of the Koran for whitewashing some of its more brutal passages. It turns out that the book contains reasonable translations of the passages in question; my confusion was caused by the fact that the verses in the Norwegian version are numbered in a way that differs from the standard numbering. I apologize for this inadvertent misrepresentation. – Bruce Bawer
Le général de Division Ibrahima Dahirou Dembélé a reçu en audience son homologue belge Philippe Goffin, en visite au Mali. Les entretiens qui ont porté sur la situation sécuritaire se sont déroulés le lundi 9 décembre 2019 au Ministère de la Défense et des Anciens Combattants.