Libya’s Coast Guard rescues 24 migrants off Zuwara
A patrol of the Anti-Smuggling and Infiltration Unit of Zuwara has rescued 24 migrants off the coast of the city.
Al-Sarraj, Qatar and Turkey’s Defense Ministers discuss Sirte-Jufra military build-up
The Head of the Libyan Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj met Monday in Tripoli with Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and the Qatari Defense Minister Khaled Al Attiyah and discussed latest military mobilization in Sirte and Jufra.
German government ‘in the dark’ about guns and neo-Nazis
The German government has admitted it does not know what firearms and explosives police have impounded in the past few years and whether they were taken from extremists. The news comes amid a rise in far-right extremism.
Six Russian military cargo flights arrive in eastern Libya from Syria
The spokesman for the Libyan Government of National Accord’s (GNA) Sirte-Jufra Operations Room Abdelhadi Drah said they had depicted six flights on Russian military cargo planes coming from Syria’s Lattakia to eastern Libya’s Labreg and Benina airports.
Tunisia’s Transition Hits a Rough Patch Following COVID Lockdown
Volatile post-election politics continues to limit the government’s ability to address Tunisians grievances.
The Black Sea: Economic Region or Intersection?
For those who study the countries and regions that surround it, the Black Sea is many things — a global trade thoroughfare, a zone of contestation, a cradle of civilizations, and a dying ecosystem. But, curiously, one of the more opaque factors is whether the Black Sea region — the states and polities on its littoral and immediate hinterland — is a region at all, properly speaking. Although a regional cultural or political identity has long proven elusive, there was a time when the Black Sea began to possess the rudiments of an economic one. It could again.
Niger expands emergency across region where aid workers were killed
Niger’s government has extended a state of emergency to the entire region that surrounds the capital Niamey and suspended access to a giraffe reserve where six French aid workers and two Nigeriens were shot dead.
8 suspects arrested over Daesh links in Turkey’s Black Sea region
At least eight suspects have been arrested in Turkey’s Black Sea region for their links to the Daesh terrorist group, security sources said Tuesday.
Libya, Turkey ink trade and economy MoU
The Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) signed with Turkey a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to boost trade and economic ties, the Turkish trade minister said Thursday.