Libya Archives - Page 12 of 111

2May

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Is Haftar right in claiming there are terrorists and militias in Tripoli?

NOVANEWS People attend a protest against Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar's offensive to seize Tripoli, on 12 April 2019. [Hazem Turkia - Anadolu Agency]. Dr Mustafa Fetouri Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), has long claimed that terrorists and rogue militias are controlling the capital Tripoli, placing his campaign as part of the international “war on terror”. In launching his attack on 4 April, his spokesperson repeatedly said that “terrorists” are fighting LNA on the outskirts of the capital. The UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), headed by Fayez Al-Sarraj, vehemently denies that any criminals, terrorists, sanctioned individuals or militia leaders are involved in the fight. Claiming full control over forces co...

7Apr

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Libyan Strongman Meets with UN Chief after Advancing on Tripoli

NOVANEWS Photo: Reuters The commander of the Libyan National Army, Khalifa Haftar, met with U.N. Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, in Benghazi on Friday as the Libyan general´s forces push towards Tripoli. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi on Friday in a bid to avert renewed civil war as his forces advanced on the capital Tripoli to challenge the internationally recognized government. RELATED: Libyan Commander Haftar Orders Forces to Move on Tripoli The military thrust by Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA), which is allied to a parallel administration based in the east, marked a dangerous escalation of a power struggle that has dragged on since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. LNA forces on ...

4Mar

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Libya, USA, Venezuela

MEMORIES OF LIBYA DOMINATE RUSSIAN THINKING

NOVANEWS By: Ziad Fadel MEMORIES OF LIBYA DOMINATE RUSSIAN THINKING; SYRIAN MILITARY CHAMPING AT THE BIT; GUAIDO TEMPTING FATE Mu’ammar Al-Qaddaafi, protected by his all-female security force, frowns at the cameras in a photo taken during some official military event in Tripoli, Libya. His days were numbered once Russia and China abstained in the UNSC vote on Resolution No. 1973 which blessed a NATO assault on Libya’s sovereignty. (Photo: Times of Malta) Qaddaafi was executed by a gang of slimy, ignorant thugs who arranged to have a teenage boy pull the Great Leader’s own sidearm and shoot him in the head. This made Zionist Hillary Clinton, a war criminal, ecstatic when she said: “We came, we saw…….he died” followed by her cackling laughter. If Trump’s administration has its ...

10Jan

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Obama says Libya was 'worst mistake' of his presidency

NOVANEWS ‘Failing to plan’ for the aftermath of Muammar Gaddafi’s downfall is the US president’s biggest regret from his time in office. Obama has been reflecting on his time in office as November, and the end of his presidency, looms. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP Barack Obama has said the biggest mistake of his presidency was the lack of planning for the aftermath of Muammar Gaddafi’s ouster in Libya that left the country spiralling into chaos and coming under threat from violent extremists. Reflecting on his legacy in a Fox News interview aired on Sunday, Obama said his “worst mistake” was “probably failing to plan for the day after what I think was the right thing to do in intervening in Libya”. Obama: 'No political influence' in Clinton email server investigatio...

18Nov

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Libya, NATO

THE UNMAKING OF LIBYA & NATO’S UNABASHED HUBRIS

NOVANEWS Alexander Azadgan Western politicians and of course the deceitful, manipulative, mainstream media have been shamelessly calling Libya a “failed state”. A FAILED STATE?! Who made it a “failed state”? Can we have some academic and historical integrity here or is that too much to ask in these decrepit times that we live in where monsters are in charge? I digress. The unmaking of Libya will be a case study for all future students of geopolitics. Libya was the most prosperous and successful nation in Africa. So bold that towards the end of his tenure, Muammar Gaddafi, not exactly a saint by any stretch of imagination, was openly proposing an Africa-wide unified currency called, “The Golden Dinar” to challenge the hegemony of the petrodollar system. And that was the ...

18Nov

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Libya, Russia

Russia's Game in Libya Explained

NOVANEWS Russia has key interests in Libya at stake Lorenzo Vita The strategy of Vladimir Putin, in the difficult Libyan chessboard, has always been particularly silent. The Kremlin, after the fall of Muhammar Gaddafi, moved with caution, aware that the end of the colonel had a disastrous effect on the construction of the Russian strategy in the Mediterranean after the fall of the Soviet Union. But the West, which has made a hell out of that Libya, has not supplanted the other superpowers. After Gaddafi, another leader did not arrive, but the war exploded: civil and not. And in this quagmire, Russia has managed to transform itself into an increasingly dynamic and increasingly necessary actor. Italy knows it very well, since Giuseppe Conte [the now in-Office Italian Prime Minister] ...

15Nov

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Libya – A Prime Example of Secularism Versus Extremist Islam

NOVANEWS By Richard Galustian Global Research For years I and other commentators on MENA developments, have consistently written that Field Marshall Haftar is the only solution for Libya. And yet again the latest ridiculous Italian attempt to broker a solution after dozens of similar conferences took place. In the words of the former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi it was as “a resounding flop”. Its been 7 years since the ‘unnatural’ revolution causing disgracefully regime change, brought about by the imperialist land and oil grab by the ‘great powers’ using unashamedly NATO. If this chaos continues, Libya will inevitably split into two countries and very soon. When the hell are the fools that inhabit the UN, EU and even Russia going to ‘get out’ of Libya? To repeat the obv...

13Nov

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Cruel European Migration Policies Leave Refugees Trapped in Libya With No Way Out

NOVANEWS WASHINGTON - A year after shocking images purporting to show human beings being bought and sold in Libya caused a global outcry, the situation for migrants and refugees in the country remains bleak and in some respects has worsened, said Amnesty International. Findings published by the organization today highlight how EU member states’ policies to curb migration, as well as their failure to provide sufficient resettlement places for refugees, continue to fuel a cycle of abuse by trapping thousands of migrants and refugees in appalling conditions in Libyan detention centres. “One year after video footage showing human beings being bought and sold like merchandise shocked the world, the situation for refugees and migrants in Libya remains bleak,” said Heba Morayef, Middle East ...

25Sep

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Libya, NATO

Seven Years after NATO Overthrew Gaddafi in Libya

NOVANEWS Seven Years after NATO Overthrew Gaddafi in Libya, Western-Backed Gov Begs for Another Intervention The current situation in Libya and the GNA’s recent plea should serve as a cautionary tale regarding the inefficacy of NATO-backed and UN-backed regime-change operations, which have left nothing but chaos and failed states in their wake. Smoke rises from a home destroyed by an airstrike as Libyan fighters from the U.N.-backed GNA advance into Sirte, Libya, October 14, 2016. Photo | Reuters By Whitney Webb Whitney Webb TRIPOLI, LIBYA — A month of violent in-fighting in Libya’s capital has prompted the “official” government of Libya to call for UN intervention, just seven years after the 2011 NATO intervention laid waste to the country and plunged it into a state of cha...

13Aug

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Libya, USA

LIBYA: SECRET WAR

NOVANEWS The U.S. Has Conducted 550 Drone Strikes in Libya Since 2011 — More Than in Somalia, Yemen, or Pakistan Photo: Henrik Moltke/Field of Vision By: Nick Turse, Henrik Moltke, Alice Speri The intercept In partnership with THE UNITED STATES has conducted approximately 550 drone strikes in Libya since 2011, more than in Somalia, Yemen, or Pakistan, according to interviews and an analysis of open-source data by The Intercept. The Intercept’s reporting indicates that Libya has been among the most heavily targeted nations in terms of American remotely piloted aircraft and radically revises the number of drone strikes carried out under the Obama administration, doubling some estimates. During a four-month span in 2016, for example, there w...