The Akrotiri air base plays a key role in freighting men and material in and out of Afghanistan and recently in support of operations in Libya . The two bases are the last vestiges of colonial rule, but the British Ministry of Defense has dismissed reports that the government is planning a..…

Salame urged the Security Council to unite and “halt Libya’s senseless unraveling,” stressing that “too much is at stake.” . The Security Council is discussing a British-drafted resolution that would endorse the Berlin plan aimed at restoring peace in Libya and urge..…

Congress can investigate government corruption or the causes of a mistake or failure (like the burning of Washington by British troops in 1814 or the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, nearly 200 years later). ..…

Libya currently has the largest mass of loose weapons in the world, comprising more than the entire arsenal of the British Army. ..…

And the fines for violating US embargoes (not only against Cuba but also against Iran, Libya, Sudan …) are high: US $1.3 billion for the Italian UniCredit and $947 million for the British Standard Chartered, both imposed in April; $1.340 billion for the Société Générale in 2018 and..…

Plus, host Carol Hills speaks with Samantha Power, former UN ambassador under President Barack Obama, about the unintended consequences of Obama Libya and the failure to act Syria. The British firm, the oldest, announced that it's shutting down, canceling all flights and vacations and..…

Americans landed Algeria and, with British driving victoriously across Libya, threw Germans out of Africa. Soon Allies had taken Sicily and British, Polish, French and New Zealand troops were fighting their way up Italian peninsula.. ..…

Libya: In March 2012, a video of a Muslim mob attacking a commonwealth cemetery near Benghazi, where WWII British officers were buried, appeared on the Internet. ..…

Libya: In March 2012, a video of a Muslim mob attacking a commonwealth cemetery near Benghazi, where WWII British officers were buried, appeared on the Internet. ..…

That Libyan Islamic Fighting Group were cosseted there by the British state for the day they could be sent back to fight in Libya. . ..…

After an agreement between the United States and Libya, he was sent back to Libya, where he was again tortured, this time by British agents, in Abu Salim prison. ..…

In response to the enslavement of Nigerians Libya, on August 29, 2018, former British prime Theresa May announced plan. ..…

But how are we to respond to the acts of politicians who vote to authorise British and US wars in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. ..…

But how are we to respond to the acts of politicians who vote to authorise British and US wars in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. ..…

Before the war, British controlled Egypt, French controlled Algeria and Tunisia, and Italy controlled Libya. ..…

Britain claims it has carried out drone strikes only in war zones in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. But the documents say British intelligence has also helped guide American strikes outside conventional war zones. . ..…

In Libya in 2011, Franco-British air campaign ran out of munitions and equipment and Europe was again forced to turn to United States, in what is considered embarrassment for EU, global economic power.. ..…

British bombing Libya, was violation of UN Resolution 1973, to enforce no-fly zone over Libya and to use 'all necessary measures to prevent attacks on civilians and did not authorise the use of ground troops or regime change promoted by Cameron government. ..…

The comment relating to NATO’s “discretionary wars”, such as the illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Libya, provides another useful insight into the disregard that Britain’s elites hold for international law. In the post-1945 era, British author Mark Curtis outlines in..…

The American and British media have awakened to the grim reality in Libya, where African refugees are for sale in open-air slave markets. ..…

In 2014, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray told a meeting at St Andrews University in Scotland that Libya is now a disaster and 15,000 people were killed when NATO (British and French jets) bombed Sirte. ..…

In interview in 2016 on his role in the destruction of Libya he offered advice for when British Foreign Office next planned to overthrow government. At the time of Hague's comments, the consequences of the invasion of Libya by UK, France and the US had had years to.  ..…

Libya 2011 . Taking advantage of the same, ill-fated Arab Spring in 2011, US officials, backed by their British and French allies, took aim at Libya, led by long-time 'thorn in the West's side' Muammar Gaddafi. ..…

Washington-driven against Venezuela is underway, imperialist and anti-democratic at its core, and it has the full backing of British government   British meddling Venezuela is packaged human rights and democracy, the same way it was in aggressions against Iraq, Libya and Syria,..…

Not only was the monarchical regime essentially a British creation, and Libya home to an American air base, but Egyptians were also to be found throughout the Libyan state apparatus. ... Sir Alec Kirkbride, the British ambassador to Libya, reported in 1954: . ..…

Curtin’s backing was important when Fadden renewed Menzies’ earlier representations to the British prime minister, (Sir) Winston Churchill, to relieve the Australian 9th Division at Tobruk, Libya, and to reassemble the Australian Imperial Force in the Middle East as one formation. . ..…

French and British led air campaign against Muamar Qaddafi's Libya also hinged on American support, and United States was obliged to take the lead.28. ..…

It cannot get the world behind Iran attack or as it got some of its closest allies behind Iraq War in 2003, or got UNSC behind the savage destruction of Libya in 2011, or got French and British forces to help U.S help al-Qaeda-aligned opposition forces Syria since 2011. ..…

British committee says former Prime Minister David Cameron's military Libya led to the rise of Daesh North Africa... ..…

Merkel and von der Leyen have watched with interest how the French have managed to join the British as Washington's closest allies. ... In Mali and in Libya, it was even the French who first wanted to intervene. . . . . . ..…

The reality, however, is that none of the war criminals in Washington and London will be called to account for their crimes in Yemen—or for that matter those in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and beyond—without the mobilization of the American and British working class, united in..…

“The father and brother of the Manchester attacker Salman Abedi, have been arrested by counter-terrorism forces in Libya,” reports the Independent. ... British authorities also arrested Abedi’s other brother following raids on a property by law enforcement in Manchester. . ..…

Libya: British Defense Secretary Warns Russia Interfering . _ At the Munich Security Conference, with echoes of the Cold War era, British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon grumbled about the Russians interfering in Libya and their recent visit with Haftar. .....…

The files expose the duplicity and hypocrisy of former British Prime Minister, going back to 2007, mere four years before North Atlantic Treaty Organization decided to bomb Libya.. ..…

The mending of relations was very publically marked by a visit from British Prime Minister at the time, Tony Blair, to Libya on March 25, 2004. ..…

But while many of the demonstrators said they were trying to cause a change along the lines of the Arab spring revolutions where large numbers of people occupied central squares, older more experienced and knowledgeable patriots at the scene noted that the Arab spring uprisings were a direct product of the..…

But the struggle for Libya's future is not over and NATO's military operation will continue British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said.. ..…

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday that U.S expects to turn control of Libya military mission over to coalition -- headed either by French and British or by NATO -- in matter of days... ..…

British Prime Minister David Cameron said his country's forces were in action over Libya. . ..…

On April 5, 1999, the government of Libya turned over to British authorities two of its citizens. ..…

Joint stands, most recently in withdrawing all 12 ambassadors from Tehran in response to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's death threat against British author Salman Rushdie, make its voice count. . The Community has invoked limited punitive measures against Libya, Syria and Argentina. ..…