31.07.2025, 17:04
Zitat:Libya’s GNU strikes smuggling networks with Turkish drones in message to rivals
Internationally recognised government targets traffickers with multiple strikes in northwest of country
A picture taken of the sun setting in Tripoli, Libya on 11 July 2025 (AFP/Mahmud Turkia)
The strikes were coordinated from Tripoli, the Libyan capital, on 30 July 2025 (AFP/Mahmud Turkia)
By Rayhan Uddin
Published date: 31 July 2025 15:30 BST
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Libya’s internationally recognised government has begun using Turkish drones to strike people-smuggling networks.
Strikes were carried out on Wednesday in the northwestern coastal cities of Sabratha and Zwara, the Government of National Unity (GNU) announced.
The strikes were “part of a systematic security campaign and comprehensive strategic plan aimed at intensifying operations to degrade and dismantle the criminal gangs and networks trafficking in human lives and people-smuggling into Europe,” Abdulsalam Al-Zoubi, the GNU’s deputy defence minister, said on Thursday.
“These operations, which included the inaugural use of UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles], demonstrate the determination and zero-tolerance approach of the GNU in tackling these criminal networks and disrupting their illegal activity.”
A source within the GNU told Middle East Eye that the drones were “Turkish UAVs owned and operated by the Libyan Ministry of Defence”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/libya...ish-drones