{Russian Airborne units have been sent to Egypt to take part in joint military drills, the first such bilateral exercise in Africa. Armored personnel vehicles and quadbikes are among the hardware being taken by the Russian side.} “International [military] exercises of the Russian and Egyptian Airborne forces on the African continent are being conducted for […]

{Previously denied reports of American troops on the ground in Libya have finally been confirmed by the Pentagon. The military admitted a “small number” of US forces in of Libya to support the local ones after launching airstrikes on ISIS targets A “small number of US forces have gone in and out of Libya to […]

{The son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam, has reportedly been released from prison, more than four years after he was caught trying to flee the country by a rebel militia, despite being sentenced to death last year.} “He is well and safe and in Libya,” his lawyer Karim Khan told France 24, […]

{EU foreign ministers agreed to expand the bloc’s anti-people smuggling Operation Sophia in the Mediterranean Sea by allowing it to take additional tasks including searching of suspicious vessels for illegal arms and training Libyan Coastguard.} The ministers also extended the operation’s mandate by one year to July 2017 in an attempt to curb the unending […]

{North Korea has hailed its newly-developed “miniaturized thermonuclear bomb”, allegedly tested this week, as a weapon of stability that will serve as a deterrent against any invasion that could set the nation on the same path as Libya or Iraq. } The communist state said that “indigenous efforts and technology” helped the nation join the […]

{ Islamic State militants have managed to steal chemical weapons from underground storage facilities in Libya that were not properly guarded and the gas has already been used, a cousin of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi told RT Arabic in an exclusive interview.} “ISIS has managed to find some of the secret underground storage […]