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Russia has avoided a direct military presence in Libya — unlike in Syria, where Russia’s air force, navy and other units aided Moscow’s longtime ally, President Bashir al-Assad.

Russia is moving to expand its military presence in eastern Libya, a plan that could lead to a naval base, giving it a significant foothold on Europe’s southern doorstep.

But perhaps above all, Russia's approach to Libya has to be seen as a direct reaction to the mechanisms of el-Qaddafi's ouster in 2011. A dangerous precedent.

"Russia has used all this to help Haftar's putative heir, Saddam Haftar, expand Libya's role as a hot spot for smuggling of weapons, drugs, fuel -- and people," Megerisi stated.

If Russia entrenches itself in Libya unopposed, it will create problems for Europe in the Mediterranean and Africa. The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime and the increase in Russian ...

Libya has been locked in a power struggle of its own, one that the redeployment of Russia’s military from Syria to North Africa could upend. Libya has known little stability since its revolution ...

As of last month, he is the Russian ambassador to Libya. Putin’s man in Tripoli is there for good reason. At a time when Russia needs all hands on deck as it wages its war in Ukraine, ...

The Russian mercenary group Wagner has been supplying Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) with missiles to aid their fight against the country’s army, Sudanese and regional diplomatic sources ...

In Eastern Libya, the local leader, Gen. Khalifa Haftar, reportedly profits from sending boatloads of African migrants north. “Haftar has explicitly aided migrant smugglers in Libya by granting them ...

An oil tanker near Libya carrying crude exploded, raising concerns as a trend of similar incidents involving vessels linked ...