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Deutsche Welle: Could Libya be Russia’s new Syria?

Published April 11, 2019 at 11:01 am

A local militiaman, belonging to a group opposed to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, stands on an armoured vehicle the group said they seized from Haftar's forces at one of their bases in the coastal town of Zawiya, west of Tripoli on April 5, 2019, hours after Haftar's froces were pushed back from a key checkpoint less than 30 kilometres (18 miles) from Tripoli, according to security source said.

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As the conflict in Libya heats up, the words out of Moscow have remained cool and rational.

During a recent visit to Egypt, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia′s “task is to help the Libyan people overcome their current differences of opinion, and come up with a stable agreement” to reconcile the sides.