Qatar comes out of Turkey’s shadow as it returns to North Africa
Libyan sources suggested that Al-Attiyah and Akkar came to Libya this week to discuss battle plans for the campaign on Sirte and the oil terminals.
Author: M Barbu
Libya’s Islamists create ‘parallel bodies’, further muddling conflict
Playing on contradictions, they aim to perpetuate chaos as their best chance for survival.
Confruntări şi lupte între SUA şi Rusia în Siria: morţi, răniţi şi şicanări ale forţelor armate
Un război surd are loc în Siria în această perioadă în care trupele ruse şi americane au intrat în contact şi în confruntări directe în numeroase zone pe teren. Flancaţi de companiile militare private controlate de GRU şi de trupele guvernamentale siriene, ruşii au declanşat o campanie de şicanare şi atacuri directe asupra trupelor americane din nord-estul Siriei, pe care doresc să le împingă afară din Siria.
Intel: Libya’s Sarraj suspends interior minister, fracturing Tripoli government
Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj of Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) suspended Misratan-born Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha on Friday, setting up a major split within the Tripoli-based government that threatens progress toward a cease-fire in the wider civil war.
Antonov owned by Haftar militias lands in Sirte
The Spokesman for the Sirte Al-Jufra Operations Room, Abdel Hadi Drah, confirmed the landing of an Antonov military cargo plane, which belongs to Haftar’s militia groups, at Al-Qardabiya base in Sirte on Sunday.
Power struggle between Sarraj, Bashagha could mean Tripoli-Misrata clashes
The developments point to escalating tensions between the two sides’ powerful militias, which some fear could culminate in military confrontation.
Mapping Hezbollah’s Worldwide Activities
n August 3, The Washington Institute held a virtual Policy Forum with Matthew Levitt, Kash Patel, and Juan Zarate to debut the Lebanese Hezbollah Select Worldwide Activity Interactive Map and Timeline, the first-ever publicly available interactive multimedia tool charting the group’s history of terrorist plots, attacks, logistics, and financial activities, as well as actions taken against it. Levitt, the map’s creator, is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow at the Institute and director of its Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. Patel serves as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council. Zarate served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for combating terrorism in the George W. Bush administration. The following is a rapporteur’s summary of their remarks.
Interior Ministry identifies shooter at demonstrators, refers him to Attorney General
The Faiez Serraj-aligned Interior Ministry based in Tripoli and led by Fathi Bashagha announced last Friday (28 August) that it had identified one of the suspected government-aligned shooters at the unarmed civilian demonstrators in Tripoli last Monday 24 August.
US accuses Russia of continuing to arm Wagner Group in Libya
US military’s Africa Command says satellite image indicates Moscow’s Ministry of Defence is ‘supporting’ Russian paramilitary contractor
The United States military’s Africa Command (Africom) said new evidence gathered in Libya points to Russia’s continued involvement in the conflict via a paramilitary contractor known as the Wagner Group.
Haftar deploys more mercenaries to Al-Jufra
The Intelligence and Information Unit of the Operations Command of the Libyan Army has detected columns of armed forces moving towards Al-Jufra district from the east, said the Libyan Army Spokesman, Colonel Mohammad Gununu, confirming that the forces are stationing in three schools in Hun town.