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Special Forces to Ensure Erdogan's Security During Tripoli Visit

A documented screenshot from the LNA maneuver video (General Command of the Libyan National Army)
A documented screenshot from the LNA maneuver video (General Command of the Libyan National Army)
    Turkish Special Forces in Tripoli to Secure Erdogan’s Visit
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Special Forces to Ensure Erdogan's Security During Tripoli Visit

A documented screenshot from the LNA maneuver video (General Command of the Libyan National Army)
A documented screenshot from the LNA maneuver video (General Command of the Libyan National Army)

A security team including Turkish special security forces arrived in the Libyan capital on Friday to guard President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his scheduled visit to Tripoli, informed sources revealed.

The Turkish president is expected to meet with the Turkish forces in Misrata, western Libya, who are assigned to support Fayez al-Sarraj’s Government of National Accord (GNA), the sources added.

Meanwhile, the Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, announced that its forces had conducted an expanded field maneuver using live ammunition, in preparation to deter and combat terrorism and attain peace across Libya.

LNA’s Tariq Bin Ziyad Reinforced Brigade said in a statement on Saturday that the maneuver included elites from special teams, specialized artillery battalions, armor, missiles, military engineering, special forces, the air force and the parachute team.

Professional deterrent offensive and defensive tactics and storming operations were carried out in the presence of the brigade commander other military commanders, it added.

According to the statement, forces have showed accuracy in hitting targets, high maneuverability and capability to exploit the nature of battleground to carry out their tasks on the specified time.

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Report: France Issues New Arrest Warrant for Syria's Assad

A damaged portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hangs in the city of Qamishli, as Syrian Kurds celebrate the fall of capital Damascus to anti-government fighters on December 8, 2024. (AFP)
A damaged portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hangs in the city of Qamishli, as Syrian Kurds celebrate the fall of capital Damascus to anti-government fighters on December 8, 2024. (AFP)
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Report: France Issues New Arrest Warrant for Syria's Assad

A damaged portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hangs in the city of Qamishli, as Syrian Kurds celebrate the fall of capital Damascus to anti-government fighters on December 8, 2024. (AFP)
A damaged portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hangs in the city of Qamishli, as Syrian Kurds celebrate the fall of capital Damascus to anti-government fighters on December 8, 2024. (AFP)

Two French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for suspected complicity in war crimes, the second such move by France's judicial authorities, a source said on Tuesday.

Assad, who was ousted late last year in a lightning offensive by opposition forces, is held responsible in the warrant issued on Monday as "commander-in-chief of the armed forces" for a bombing in the Syrian city of Daraa in 2017 that killed a civilian, a source close to the case, asking not to be named, told AFP.

This mandate was issued as part of an investigation into the case of Salah Abou Nabout, a 59-year-old Franco-Syrian national and former French teacher, who was killed on June 7, 2017 following the bombing of his home by Syrian army helicopters.

The French judiciary considers that Assad ordered and provided the means for this attack, according to the source.

Six senior Syrian army officials are already the target of French arrest warrants over the case in an investigation that began in 2018.

"This case represents the culmination of a long fight for justice, in which I and my family believed from the start," said Omar Abou Nabout, the victim's son, in a statement.

He expressed hope that "a trial will take place and that the perpetrators will be arrested and judged, wherever they are".

French authorities in November 2023 issued a first arrest warrant against Assad over chemical attacks in 2013 where more than a thousand people, according to American intelligence, were killed by sarin gas.

While considering Assad's participation in these attacks "likely", public prosecutors last year issued an appeal against the warrant on the grounds that Assad should have immunity as a head of state.

However, his ouster has now changed his status and potential immunity. Assad and his family fled to Russia after his fall, according to Russian authorities.