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On 16 September 2011, Syria voted at the United Nations General Assembly to accredit the National Transitional Council (NTC) as the representative of Libya. However, the Assad government permitted Al-Rai TV , a Syrian station, to broadcast pro-Gaddafi propaganda, including audio messages from Gaddafi, his family members, and former Information ...
Syria is often called Iran's "closest ally", [286] the Arab nationalism ideology of Syria's ruling Baath party notwithstanding. During the Iran–Iraq War , Syria sided with non-Arab Iran against its enemy Iraq and was isolated by Saudi Arabia and some of the Arab countries, with the exceptions of Libya , Lebanon , Algeria , Sudan and Oman .
Three simultaneous referendums on the Federation of Arab Republics were held on 1 September 1971, in Egypt, Libya and Syria. [1] In the Egyptian referendum the proposal was approved by 99.96% of voters, [13] in the Libyan referendum it was approved by 98.6% of voters, [14] whilst in Syria 96.4% voted in favour. [15]
In some ways, Libya is a poor substitute for Syria. Transport planes can only practically reach Libya from Russia if they are allowed to overfly Turkey, providing Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...
It comes amid uncertainty around Russia's role in Syria following the fall of Bashar Assad. Ukraine said the military equipment was headed for Libya, where Russia has a strong influence.
Syria's new government likely needs arms to solidify its hold on power. That's an opening for its Turkish backers. ... In Libya, in the wake of the Gaddafi regime's 2011 collapse, ...
See Libya–Syria relations. President Bashar al-Assad, the Ba'athist Syrian head of state, responded to the Syrian civil war in a manner frequently compared by protesters to Muammar Gaddafi's crackdown in February 2011 and beyond. [243] Syria voted at the United Nations General Assembly to accredit the NTC as representative of Libya on 16 ...
In May 2012, Syria's U.N. envoy Bashar Ja'afari declared that dozens of foreign fighters from Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Britain, France and elsewhere had been captured or killed, and urged Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to stop "their sponsorship of the armed rebellion". [243]