Government of National Accord has wrested Gharyan from Khalifa Haftar’s forces, capturing troops.
8 years, 6 envoys; what more can the UN do to save Libya?
By Mustafa Fetouri Between May 2011 and today the United Nations has appointed six special representatives to Libya, from five...
Read More
Avoiding a Protracted Conflict in Libya
Since the outbreak of violence in Tripoli last April, the prospect of a negotiated settlement to end the competition for power in...
Read More
How The Times Analyzed the Migrant Center Airstrike
By Malachy Browne & Christiaan Triebert It seemed too outrageous that such a place would be bombed, but if it were true it...
Read More
A quiet conflict is raging in Libya’s desertic south
By Austin Bodetti Eight years after the death of Libyan dictator, two factions are still fighting for control of Libya.
Read More
Lawsuit claims Haftar is responsible for ‘wrongful death’ of two Libyan men killed in offensive near Tripoli.
By Jack Detsch The Donald Trump administration is seeing a “small” resurgence in the Islamic State’s numbers in Libya since strongman Khalifa Hifter began a bloody march on the capital Tripoli more than two months ago, the Pentagon’s...
By Kirill Semenov On June 16, Fayez al-Sarraj, head of the Government of National Accord, proposed a plan to resolve Libya’s current crisis.
100km from Tripoli, Gharyan was primary base for Harfar’s offensive against government in Tripoli.
By Francesca Mannocchi As foreign arms fuel the conflict for control of Libya’s western capital, the mood in Tripoli is one of defiance – and resignation.
Special Case (Libya) Libya is a Special Case for the fourth consecutive year. The Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) struggled to govern large swaths of Libyan territory, as it did not exercise control in several parts of the country.
A Lexicon of Hate Speech Terms Libya has been identified as a priority country for this work given the unstable security situation and the extensive fragmentation in the country in the years since the overthrow of Gaddafi, all of which has been...
By Francesca Mannocchi As foreign arms fuel the conflict for control of Libya’s western capital, the mood in Tripoli is one of defiance – and resignation.
By Sami Zaptia. In a long and exclusive interview with the eastern-based The Libyan Address Journal, Khalifa Hafter, commander of the mainly eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), put forward his vision for Libya and repeated his motivation...
By Adel Suleiman The Middle East is in so much disorder that chaos barely disappears in one place before it reappears in another. It is as if a hidden fiendish hand is controlling the destruction. Furthermore, it so happens that the flames only...
By Alex MacDonald BBC Arabic attitudes survey reveals 46 percent of young Tunisians identify as ‘not religious’.
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.
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.