WORLD ROUNDUPInside Libya, the Mafia State Driving Europe’s Migrant Crisis | Who Is Sahra Wagenknecht, Germany’s Kremlin-Friendly Kingmaker?

Published 7 September 2024

·  Inside Libya, the Mafia State Driving Europe’s Migrant Crisis
A trafficker’s life and death has highlighted the blurry line between militias and a corrupt government

·  How Israel Learned to Fight Hamas Deep Under Ground
The 300 miles of tunnels beneath Gaza form a remarkable subterranean world – and call for military tactics never attempted before

·  Who Is Sahra Wagenknecht, Germany’s Kremlin-Friendly Kingmaker?
From GDR activist to leader of the new left, the divisive figure wants her country to stop arming Ukraine — and she has just had success in German elections

·  Deadly and Out of Control: Migration Adviser’s Verdict on German System
Gerald Knaus demands reform after a senior official suggested asylum seekers could be sent to sites in Rwanda abandoned by Britain

 

Inside Libya, the Mafia State Driving Europe’s Migrant Crisis  (Tom Kington, The Times)
The people smuggler was afforded a funeral fit for an admiral. Sailors saluted, the last post resounded, the entire Naval Academy he had directed mourned Abdalrahman al-Milad — a notorious trafficker who was shot on Sunday by a mystery assailant.

How Israel Learned to Fight Hamas Deep Under Ground  (Jake Wallis Simons, The Telegraph)

When politicians have allowed the Israel Defense Force to operate, it has swept through Gaza like a whirlwind.
About 50 per cent of Hamas terrorists have been killed, according to Israel, and as the anniversary of the war approaches, the remainder are only able to fight a guerrilla insurgency. It has been anything but easy.