Russia has agreed to arm renegade general Khalifa Haftar, one of the key players in the Libyan civil war, according to a source within the Algerian military. Read More
Tag - Benghazi
By Hayder al-Khoei & Ellie Geranmayeh & Mattia Toaldo
This analysis was titled ‘After ISIS: How to Win the Peace in Iraq and Libya‘. However, we decided to only publish the sections related to the situation in Libya in two parts. Read More
By Hayder al-Khoei & Ellie Geranmayeh & Mattia Toaldo
This analysis was titled ‘After ISIS: How to Win the Peace in Iraq and Libya’. However, we decided to only publish the sections related to the situation in Libya in two parts. Read More
By Mel Frykberg
A total of 1523 people died in violent incidents, including bombings and shootings in Libya during 2016, the NGO Libya Body Count has reported (www.libyabodycount.org). Read More
By Abdel Rahman Ali
The Benghazi neighbourhood of Ganfouda is another Allepo in the making as militias and foreign forces have laid siege for months, depriving 130 families of food, water, and medicine. Read More
By Maryline Dumas
They chose to fight against Islamic State in their own way – and they died “as martyrs”. His mother made him promise he would be home by 8pm that evening, 28 August 2016. Read More
With the ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) threat largely eliminated the major problem remains a lack of national unity. Read More
By Eric Schmitt
The Islamic State, though driven from its coastal stronghold in Surt this week, still has several hundred fighters who have dispersed across Libya and pose a threat to the country, its neighbors and, potentially, Europe, according to American officials and the Pentagon’s Africa Command. Read More
By Ethan Chorin
On the morning of September 12, 2012, I sat in the office of the director of the Benghazi Medical Center with a group of people, Libyans and Americans, all burdened with information the world did not yet have: Read More