The spokesman for the Libyan Army’s Sirte-Jufra Operations Room, Abdelhadi Drah said one mercenary fighter from Sudanese Janjaweed – fighting for Khalifa Haftar – was killed Friday in Sirte by the residents.
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Explosive remnants, Wagner-planted mines continue to take lives in Tarhouna
An unexploded ordnances on Friday killed one person and wounded another in the city of Tarhouna southeast of Tripoli, a source from the city has confirmed.
Read More »A Most Irregular Army: The Rise of Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces
Working Paper Research Division Middle East and Africa, 2020/02, 32 Page.
Read More »Booby-trapped bodies and trip-wire toys: The perils of clearing Tripoli of mines
When Colonel Naji al-Garabli pushes the detonator, dirt, smoke and sand punch up into the air. A stomach-rattling boom shakes the ground.
Read More »‘Serious crisis’: 20,000 foreign fighters in Libya, UN says
At least 20,000 foreign fighters and mercenaries are in Libya causing a “serious crisis” as weapons continue pouring into the war-ravaged North African nation, a United Nations official warned on Wednesday.
Read More »Sudanese lawyers to sue 10 individuals from Sudan, UAE and Libya
The legal counsel of the Sudanese nationals scammed by UAE firm “Black Shield”, Omar Al-Abed, said Tuesday they were preparing to file lawsuits with regional and international courts against ten persons from the UAE, Sudan and Libya over human trafficking.
Read More »UAE funding Russian Wagner mercenaries in Libya, says US
The US Department of Defence has indicated that the United Arab Emirates is financing Russian Wagner mercenaries operating in Libya. The Pentagon report could have a serious impact on Washington’s relations with the Gulf State.
Read More »Pentagon Says UAE Funding Russia’s Shadowy Mercenaries in Libya
The Defense Department’s inspector general found that the United Arab Emirates is financing Russian Wagner Group mercenaries—just as Trump aims to sell the UAE billions of dollars worth of arms.
Read More »Exploring Armed Groups in Libya: Perspectives on SSR in a Hybrid Environment
Libya’s security sector has become virtually unrecognizable from what it was a decade ago owing to the transformations brought about since the 2011 revolution. This evolution has implications on any attempts to usher in short-term and interim security arrangements as well as longer-term security sector reform (SSR) efforts.
Read More »Haftar’s alarming reliance on foreign mercenaries
Russian Wagner Group mercenaries and the Sudanese Janjaweed forc es are still flooding into the city of Sirte to bolster the forces of Haftar, the Burkan Al-Ghadab (Volcano of Rage) operation said Wednesday.
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