General Khalifa Haftar has arrived in Moscow on an official visit to Russia for talks with Russian officials . Haftar reportedly met with senior Russian officials including Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as well as the Russian National Security Council This is the second visit of Haftar to Russia since June when…
The United Arab Emirates has established a military base in east Libya to back Khalifa Haftar’s self-proclaimed army in its ongoing war in Benghazi, IHS Jane has reported. The UK-based defence and security consultancy said the airbase is operating AT-802 light attack aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), according to obtained Airbus Defence and Space satellite…
By Prof George Joffé The outcome of the ‘Arab Spring’ or ‘Arab Awakening’, as many inside the region prefer to call it, has been very different from the original expectations of those who had been involved in the massive popular demonstrations that started it off. Rather than radical or even revolutionary democratic change, to enshrine…
by Felicity Arbuthnot “The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.” (Samuel Adams, 1722-1803, letter 1775.) This will surely have you falling down with surprise. According to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and obtained by the (UK) Sunday Telegraph, the August 2009 release from Scotland’s Barlinnie jail of Libyan…
By Ramesh Thakur Western countries occupy almost all powerful and big-budget posts in the organisation, and sadly developing countries, despite their numbers, have allowed the bias to persist Ask it quietly, but ask it we must. Is the United Nations racist, either deliberately or unconsciously? Many years ago, the late Sergio Vieira de Mello,…
by Atul Aneja posted November 1, 2012 by The Hindu Although the U.S. is in denial, there is every reason to believe that it was Tahloob, a movement of pro-Qadhafi loyalists, that killed Ambassador Stevens Spin doctors in the United States are finding it hard to explain the September 11 strike in Benghazi that killed…
posted November 2, 2012 by Countercurrents Libya is full of turmoil, and is far from tranquility. Brutality and lawlessness is the order of the day there. The following news report from Bani Walid by AFP [1] depicts a picture, which is only a part: Mohammed Saad and his family came home to a dead…