Fallout of Assad’s ouster in Syria ripples down the Mediterranean to Libya
4 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 ...
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 ...
Its Syrian Bases in Doubt, Russia Sends Cargo Flights to Libya
4 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 ...
Syria’s challenges are even greater than those Libya faced in 2011
5 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.
Russia Moves Air-Defense Systems, Other Advanced Weaponry From Syria …
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 ...
Can Syria avoid becoming another Libya or Iraq? A week after …
Dec 17, 2024 · There are numerous factors suggesting Syria could be heading in this direction, following the path of Libya and Sudan in recent years. Syria has ethnic groups with deeply held, historical ...
Russia Moving Military Assets To Africa After Syria Setback
3 days ago · They include facilities in Libya, Mali, the Central African Republic, and Sudan. Moving a significant amount of military equipment from Russia or Syria to Africa, however, will be costly, experts say.
Exclusive | Russia Withdraws Air-Defense Systems, Other Advanced ...
5 days ago · 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 Civil War: What to Know About the Fall of Bashar al-Assad
6 days ago · Syria’s president fled to Russia, according to Russian state media outlets and two Iranian officials. ... In Libya during the 2011 Arab Spring revolt and Iraq during the 2003 American invasion ...
Syria After Assad - The New Yorker
Dec 13, 2024 · Syria’s twenty-three million people include multiple Muslim sects, Christians, Druze, and Kurds. ... The danger, Pedersen noted, is the Libya scenario. After the ouster of Muammar Qaddafi, in ...