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Pentagon Says UAE Possibly Funding Russia’s Shadowy Mercenaries in Libya
Foreign Policy The Defense Department’s inspector general report comes just as Trump aims to sell the UAE billions of dollars’ worth of arms.
The United Arab Emirates is apparently helping to finance the Russian mercenary Wagner Group in Libya, according to a report issued last week by the U.S. Defense Department’s inspector general for counter-terrorism operations in Africa—a finding that is likely to complicate the United States’ close relationship with the Gulf state.