Libya, Syria and Russia
Its Syrian Bases in Doubt, Russia Sends Cargo Flights to Libya
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 Dec. 8, when Syrian rebels overthrew Russia’s ally, Bashar al-Assad.
Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members make up one of Syria's biggest religious minorities. Alawites ...
In fact, the scale of the challenge facing Syria is greater than that which confronted Libya in 2011. Libyan leader Muammar ...
Even with hopes running high, so much can go wrong when a country ousts a longtime dictator and tries to start anew ...
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Russia has begun withdrawing a large amount of military equipment and troops from Syria following the ouster of former Syrian ...
History tells us that where a fragmented coalition of armed groups finds itself in a political vacuum, more violence is ...
Losing Syrian military bases would hurt the Kremlin’s attempts to project power in the Middle East and Africa.
Russia appears to be scrambling to reinforce its bases in Libya as it faces being thrown out of Syria, its other foothold in the Mediterranean. Flight data show at least three Russian military ...
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