By Barah Mikail It will still be a long time before Libyans stop paying the price of a malicious international game that grapples with the inability of their leaders to look beyond their own interests.
How people in Tripoli experience the battle for Libya’s capital (1)
By Francesca Mannocchi As foreign arms fuel the conflict for control of Libya’s western capital, the mood in Tripoli is one of...
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Hafter attempts to market his justification (!!) for Tripoli attack
By Sami Zaptia. In a long and exclusive interview with the eastern-based The Libyan Address Journal, Khalifa Hafter, commander...
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Who is setting the Middle East on fire?
By Adel Suleiman The Middle East is in so much disorder that chaos barely disappears in one place before it reappears in another...
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New survey reveals drop-off in religiosity across Arab world, especially North Africa
By Alex MacDonald BBC Arabic attitudes survey reveals 46 percent of young Tunisians identify as ‘not religious’.
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By Abigail Watson Haftar cannot provide stability in the long-term, the sooner we learn this the sooner we stop perpetuating instability and violence in the places we intervene.
By Mustafa Abu Sneineh In an interview with MEE, Aymen Seifennaser says all parties agree the conflict must end, but they disagree on the details of how to do it.
Libya’s Second War of Post-Qadhafi Succession By Jason Pack In early April 2019, General Khalifa Haftar instructed the Libyan National Army (LNA) to take Tripoli by force, initiating Libya’s Second War of Post-Qadhafi Succession.
By Khalil al-Anani Emirati leaders must learn that war and chaos are no longer model foreign policy strategies.
By Declan Walsh Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was buried at dawn on Tuesday in a furtive and closely guarded ceremony attended by his wife and two sons.
Libya’s Second War of Post-Qadhafi Succession By Jason Pack In early April 2019, General Khalifa Haftar instructed the Libyan National Army (LNA) to take Tripoli by force, initiating Libya’s Second War of Post-Qadhafi Succession.
By Samuel Ramani China’s experiences in the last Libya conflict are informing its position this time around.
By Nabih Bulos In terms of its effect on the battlefield, a drone that fell from the skies one recent morning in an area south of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, was a nonevent. It was unarmed. When it crashed (or was shot down; it’s still...
Libyan MP and former FM Aly Abuzaakouk discusses Khalifa Haftar’s assault on Tripoli and the ongoing conflict in Libya.
The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) shared a podcast of its conference held in Paris on 5 June to discuss the current crisis in Libya.
By Anelise Borges Once again Libya is a country at war. For the third time since the fall of Gaddafi, militias are battling over the ruins of the country.
Misplaced Optimism in Libya By Jacob McCarty Is the long-running civil war in Libya winding to a close? The Libyan National Army (LNA) and its larger-than-life leader, Gen. Khalifa Haftar, seem to think so.
By Chris Stephen Uncertainty over the fate of Tripoli and recent statements by the government there are sending negative messages to IOCs.
Libya’s Second War of Post-Qadhafi Succession By Jason Pack In early April 2019, General Khalifa Haftar instructed the Libyan National Army (LNA) to take Tripoli by force, initiating Libya’s Second War of Post-Qadhafi Succession.
By Adam Goldman & Charlie Savage A Libyan man was found guilty on Thursday on two terrorism-related charges arising from the attack on a United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi in 2012 that killed two Americans, including the...
By Giorgio Cafiero One of the important dynamics shaping Libya’s five-year-old civil war is France’s support for General Khalifa Haftar and his forces in the Libyan National Army (LNA).
By Mahmoud Gamal After the militias of Khalifa Haftar, the leader of the self-styled “Libyan National Army”, had fully controlled the territory of the eastern region.