Ankara (NEO) – Erdogan’s Idlib war has morphed into a new one with the EU, which he can’t win. Is there a method to his madness? I ask because as soon as things calm down in one place, he picks a fight somewhere else. While he advanced into Idlib withContinue Reading
Berlin (TM) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the biggest loser at the Jan. 19 Berlin conference on Libya, according to an op-ed by Cengiz Çandar published Wednesday on the Al-Monitor website. World powers and other countries with interests in Libya met in Berlin on Sunday to discuss ways to endContinue Reading
Ankara (GPA) – Let’s face it, Erdogan’s war in Syria isn’t going so hot, but that hasn’t stopped his neo-Ottoman ambitions in countries like Libya. Libya, that war-torn country NATO so graciously liberated in 2011, has been a hotbed of low-intensity violence ever since the campaign to oust General Muammar al-Qaddafi. UnfortunatelyContinue Reading
Tripoly (MEE) – A decommissioned Irish naval patrol ship has become the property of Libyan militia leader Khalifa Haftar, the Irish Times reported, raising renewed concerns about violations of an arms embargo on Libya. The LÉ Aisling, now named Al Karama, was decommissioned and stripped of its weaponry, as well as defensiveContinue Reading
Tripoli (MPN) – It is likely that Saudi Arabia sees Libya’s Khalifa Haftar as a means of beating down the Muslim Brotherhood, which has a notoriously hostile relationship with the Wahhabi kingdom. Libyan strongman and former CIA asset Khalifa Haftar’s blitzkrieg on the capital, Tripoli, has stalled for now as forces loyal toContinue Reading
Ankara (TM) – Turkish Ambassador to Tunisia Ömer Faruk Doğan has denied a Tunisian news report accusing Ankara of sending Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists to the Libyan capital of Tripoli from Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. In a statement, Doğan described the report by privateContinue Reading
Tripoli (NEO) – North Africa is in turmoil again and the cause of it can be found in the plots of the Europeans and Americans to break nations states into pieces in order to control the oil and gas producing areas of the region and in the plots of againstContinue Reading
Riyadh (GPA) – With Julian Assange’s arrest dominating the news cycle, you’d be forgiven for missing the chaos unfolding in Africa. However, major events in Libya and Sudan are taking place and, as no surprise, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are fanning the flames. The Saudis Paid Khalifa HaftarContinue Reading
Washington (GPA) – George H. W. Bush may be dead but his legacy from his many years at the highest levels of US government lives on. Former President George H.W. Bush has passed on, but much like any political figure who squirms their way to the top of the D.C.Continue Reading
Washington D.C. (AHT) – The US will be celebrating Veterans Day tomorrow, and many a striped flag shall be waved. The social currency of esteem will be used to elevate those who have served in the US military, thereby ensuring future generations of recruits to be thrown into the gearsContinue Reading