n 2011 I was in Libya reporting on the civil war. Rebels backed by the US, the UK and France were advancing on the capital, Tripoli. The insurgents moved forward through bombed-out towns as Muammar Gaddafi’s forces retreated. Coastal cities in the west and east, oil refineries, Roman ruins and temples – all fell, one by one, as the regime lost ground.
The Guardian: the Skripal case and the decline of Russia’s spy agencies
A picture taken on Fisherton Road in Salisbury, U.K. on March 4, 2018 and released by the British Metropolitan Police Service on Sept. 5, 2018, shows two GRU agents wanted in connection with the nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
