China's Secret Weapons-for-Oil Deal With Libyan General

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Tensions continue to rise in Syria after the fall of Assad, with various internal and external forces jockeying for position in a power vacuum. Earlier this week, Assad loyalists ambushed and killed 14 interior ministry troops near the Mediterranean port city of Tartous. Israel has continued to bombard Houthi targets in Yemen, with a barrage on Thursday that struck Sanaa International Airport, killing at least six people according to Houthi statements. The Telegraph this week published what it claimed to be…