Thousands of Syrian men have been recruited for the warring sides, including pro-Assad fighters backing Libyan warlord Hifter.
The Syrian fighter was a teenager when he joined his first militia and a veteran of two armed groups by age 25, a close relative said. He posted brooding photos of himself on Facebook wearing fatigues and posing with guns, proud to share his battlefield exploits.But there are no posts about Mamdouh’s most recent assignment, in Libya, where he joined a Russian-backed security force, according to the relative. The mission was supposed to be secret, but it also carried a whiff of shame.
Turkey began deploying Syrian fighters to Libya late last year, as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government began ramping up its military assistance to the GNA. The Syrians were viewed as reliable fighters and an important addition to the GNA’ s defensive lines as it tried to fend off an attack on the capital, Megerisi said.
The latest recruiting inside Syria, including in Syrian government-held and Kurdish areas, is on behalf of Russian-backed security forces in Libya. Russia is one of Hifter’s most important backers, and he is supported also by Egypt, France and the United Arab Emirates.
In a briefing in early May, Christopher Robinson, the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, said that Russia and the Assad government had “ferried Syrian fighters to Libya to participate in Wagner operations in support of” Hifter’s forces. The Wagner Group is a Kremlin-backed security firm that has sent hundreds of operatives to fight for Hifter in Libya.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov recently denied reports of Syrian fighters being transported to Libya to fight for Hifter.Bogdanov, speaking to the Egyptian daily newspaper Al-Ahram this month, also rejected reports that members of the Wagner private military company were operating in Libya, saying such reports were “based mostly on fabricated data and aimed at discrediting Russia’s policy on the Libyan track.
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