By Thomas Hill
U.S. interventions
The United States has shown little interest in Libya since the Obama administration’s support for NATO military engagement. Read More
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By Gwynne Dyer
The ‘mad dog of the Middle East’, as Ronald Reagan once called Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, is on the brink of achieving his life’s ambition: becoming the dictator of Libya. Read More
By Borzou Daragahi
The forces of Libya’s rebel army officer Khalifa Haftar are on the outskirts of Tripoli, the capital of Libya, in his ongoing bid to claim the city. Read More
By Frederic Wehrey
This text is testimony given before the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. Read More
By Thomas Hill
Chairman Deutch, Ranking Member Wilson and members of the House Foreign Affairs Middle East, North Africa and International Terrorism Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on Libya. Read More
By Hafed Al-Ghwell & Karim Mezran
The attack launched by General Khalifa Haftar against the city of Tripoli and its 2.5 million inhabitants on April 4 has been halted and pushed back by the armed forces of the city and their allies from other towns in the western parts of Libya, like Misurata and Zintan. Read More
Haftar’s militias, power cuts and scarce resources
By Borzou Daragahi
When Abdul-Raouf Beit al-Mal, the mayor of central Tripoli, was abducted last year, and held by militiamen for 24 hours, he presumed that would be the worst moment of his career – perhaps his life. Read More
By Stasa Salacanin
Military rogue General Khalifa Haftar’s offensive on Tripoli comes as no surprise. It was only a matter of time when Eastern Libya’s strongmen launched the offensive against governmental forces. Read More
By Tim Eaton & Emadeddin Badi
On April 4, Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces, a powerful military faction usually known by the initials LNA, launched an offensive to capture the Libyan capital, Tripoli. The attack soon stalled, and a dynamic stalemate has played out since. Read More
By Ferhat Polat
France’s pursuit of its own long term interests in Libya is fueling the conflict and undermining the UN-backed peace process. Read More
By Frederic Wehrey & Wolfram Lacher
On April 4, Khalifa Haftar, the militia leader who controls eastern Libya, launched a large-scale offensive to capture the capital, Tripoli. Read More
By Younes Abouyoub, Dalia Ghanem and Yezid Sayigh
The armed forces have been a central political player and the real locus of power in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Sudan for the past 60 years. Read More
High-voltage cables run along the road for 30 kilometers (20 miles), carrying electricity to the capital, but they are regularly damaged by the fighting. Read More
By Dan Glazebrook
A Gallup poll is the latest in a plethora of reports detailing Libya’s unrelenting fall since 2011. Read More
An under-reported banking crisis threatens to exacerbate deadly fighting in Tripoli, ignite a protracted resource war and deepen the country’s east-west divide. Read More
Federica Saini Fasanotti
When the Qadhafi regime fell in 2011, centralized power quickly dissipated and Libya fell into chaos. Read More
Al Jazeera Arabic investigation tracks suspicious cargo flights into military bases controlled by Khalifa Haftar. Read More
By Sean Stephens
Hannan al-Mubaraak was celebrating the birth of her youngest son when gunfire rang out. Read More
An under-reported banking crisis threatens to exacerbate deadly fighting in Tripoli, ignite a protracted resource war and deepen the country’s east-west divide.
A way out requires agreeing to a ceasefire in Tripoli and ending the four-year split between the Central Bank’s rival branches. Read More
By Nabil Bulos
It’s Ramadan in Tripoli, and come midnight the streets around the Kabir public garden are a melee of bumper-to-bumper traffic. In the park, families hold post-fasting picnics, as teenagers roam in energetic clumps amid a panoply of kebab stands, gelato trucks and inflatable bounce houses. Read More
By Nabih Bulos
On paper, Libya should be booming. It’s one of the world’s top 10 countries in oil reserves. Read More
Khalifa Haftar’s march on Tripoli has ground to a halt in a war of attrition with the internationally recognised government’s forces on the city’s outskirts. The parties should conclude a ceasefire including Haftar’s partial withdrawal as a prelude to renewed UN peace talks. Read More
An under-reported banking crisis threatens to exacerbate deadly fighting in Tripoli, ignite a protracted resource war and deepen the country’s east-west divide. Read More
Interviewed by Dr. Adam Lupel
On May 22nd, IPI hosted the next event in its “Leading for Peace: Voices from the Field” series, featuring Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of (UNSML).
Khalifa Haftar’s march on Tripoli has ground to a halt in a war of attrition with the internationally recognised government’s forces on the city’s outskirts. Read More
An under-reported banking crisis threatens to exacerbate deadly fighting in Tripoli, ignite a protracted resource war and deepen the country’s east-west divide. Read More
By Imed Lamloum
Despite a UN embargo, weapons are still flowing into Libya where an assault on the capital by strongman Khalifa Haftar threatens to escalate into a proxy war between regional powers. Read More
An under-reported banking crisis threatens to exacerbate deadly fighting in Tripoli, ignite a protracted resource war and deepen the country’s east-west divide. Read More
In his latest remarks on Libya to the UN Security Council today, UNSMIL head Ghassan Salame said that Libya could descend into a Hobbesian all-against-all state of chaos or permanent partition. Read More
How the situations in Algeria and Libya have been linked
By Ghida Tayara
Younes Abouayoub of the United Nations discusses interaction between the political situation in Algeria and Libya. Read More
Despite a UN embargo, weapons are still flowing into Libya where an assault on the capital by strongman Khalifa Haftar threatens to escalate into a proxy war between regional powers. Read More
By Nawas al-Darraji
A villa in Misrata is abuzz with activity as mothers prepare food parcels with poems and messages of love attached for sons battling on the outskirts of the Libyan capital. Read More
By Bill Law
From Libya to Yemen, Emirati military adventures have come at a huge cost to civilians. Read More
By Heba Saleh
With Libyan strongman General Khalifa Haftar’s forces frustrated in their attempt to take control of Tripoli, a new front has opened in the fight over the North African country’s future. Read More
By Dr. Jamal S Ellafi
Libya is a huge country with considerable petroleum resources and marginally small population. Read More
By Jalel Harchaoui
On April 4, Khalifa Haftar launched a military offensive into Tripolitania, the country’s northwestern province, also the most densely populated one. Read More