I asked the Syrians how long they expected to stay in Libya. “As long as we are needed,” their commander replied. “We don’t want Libya to be destroyed like Syria.” Preventing this outcome, he said, meant confronting the foreign state that had tipped the scales of the Tripoli battle in General Haftar’s favor late last year—a bitter foe they know all too well. “For us, Russia is the biggest enemy,” he said. Just two days earlier, he claimed, his fighters had killed a Russian sniper not far from their villa near the front line. It was a form of payback for these Syrians, who had watched their cities being destroyed by Russian bombs.
Source : Among the Syrian Militiamen of Turkey’s Intervention in Libya
