Russian Mercenaries Join the Battle for Tripoli
Russia's so-far ambiguous approach to Libya's internal conflict, one of reassuring both sides of its continued support, has begun to shift with the deployment of Russian mercenaries backing Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar on the front lines of the battle for Tripoli. Despite Moscow's search for deep-water ports on the Mediterranean coast, control of oil supplies to Europe, influence over migrant flows to Europe from sub-Saharan Africa, and preference in massive reconstruction contracts, the Kremlin has still refrained from offering Haftar unequivocal support in his attempt to conquer Libya...