‘Terror plot’: Who is Matthew VanDyke, the US citizen arrested by India’s NIA?

He first came to prominence during the 2011 Libyan Civil War, fighting as a foreign volunteer against the Muammar Gaddafi regime. Three years later, he founded Sons of Liberty International, a non-profit security consultancy, and went on to assist the Libyan National Army.

Since 2020, he has trained and advised Ukrainian forces in their fight against Russia.
More recently, 46-year-old Matthew Aaron VanDyke turned his attention to Myanmar’s civil war, an involvement that has now landed him in legal trouble in India.