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. Read More
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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. Read More
By Samuel Ramani
China’s experiences in the last Libya conflict are informing its position this time around. Read More
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 unclear), it left behind no casualties. Read More
Libyan MP and former FM Aly Abuzaakouk discusses Khalifa Haftar’s assault on Tripoli and the ongoing conflict in Libya. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
By Chris Stephen
Uncertainty over the fate of Tripoli and recent statements by the government there are sending negative messages to IOCs. Read More
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. Read More
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 ambassador to Libya, and became a political flash point. Read More
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). Read More
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. Read More
By Tsvetana Paraskova
The vast Sahara Desert in Africa is inhospitable to plants and animals, but quite suitable for movie sets such as Luke Skywalker’s desert home planet of Tatooine in Star Wars. Read More
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. Read More
By Barah Mikaïl
Paris has drawn criticism for dealing with the renegade general as his forces move in on Tripoli. Read More
By Sam Hamad
Most world powers have aided or stood by silently as revolutions have been crushed across the Middle East and North Africa but the people’s desire to rid themselves of tyranny is still alive. Read More
By Ulf Laessing
Standing in his one-room store between tables stacked with brightly colored t-shirts and jeans, Fathi Mars gestures in despair. Read More
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. Read More
It’s kind of a crazy scenario
By Dan Friedman
With one phone call in April, President Donald Trump undercut years of American diplomacy in Libya, leaving US policy toward the war-torn state uncertain. Read More
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. Read More
Unable to seek, with the forces sanctioned by the urns of the Arab Spring, a realistic transaction at the center of the body politic, firefighters pyromaniac of the “fight against terrorism” and “Islamism” are committed, and we with, in the gear of the worst rise to extremes. Read More
By Hassan Hassan
Two years ago, the Trump administration started a new era in Middle Eastern cooperation. It’s been a disaster ever since. Read More
By Ali Abdulaziz Issawi
When the internationally-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) was formed in Libya in December 2015, it was facing an enormous amount of work to restore the country’s social fabric and rebuild its devastated economic structures. Read More
By Sudarsan Raghavan
The last time Riad al-Hami saw his mother alive, she was chatting with a neighbor in the narrow street outside their houses, as they did every evening. Read More
“What rebellion? There is no rebellion; there is only a desperate fight for existence on the soil which our fathers possessed long before us.” Read More
By Thomas Hill
European interventions
The regional proxy war being fought in Libya between Arab states is further complicated by the unhelpful intervention of several European states, including France and Italy. Read More
By Frederic Wehrey
This text is testimony given before the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. Read More
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
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