By Jack Detsch
The UN-backed Libyan government has signed a $2 million deal with Mercury Public Affairs to lobby Congress and the Donald Trump administration just days after reports that the president backed rival Khalifa Hifter. Read More
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By Philip Gordon, Andrew Miller
The United States should be working to help negotiate peace in Libya rather than fanning the flames of another failed war. Read More
Adherents of a Salafi school, the Madkhalis, are gaining prominence on both sides of Libya’s divide, causing concerns about puritanical agendas imposed through military and religious institutions. Read More
By Ulf Laessing
With the frontlines around Libya’s contested capital Tripoli stalemated, the two rival factions are bringing oil and money supplies into the firing line of their battle for power. Read More
By Imad K. Harb
Khalifa Haftar, Libya’s renegade general and leader of the self-anointed Libyan National Army (LNA), appears adamant that only he can lead the country out of the darkness of the last few years. Read More
By Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski & Christopher K. Lamont
The battle for control over critical infrastructure shows who might win the civil war. Read More
By Marwan Kabalan
Counter-revolutionary forces are seeking to resurrect the military dictatorship model the Arab Spring dismantled. Read More
By Marta Bellingreri
As clashes rage in southern Tripoli between eastern military commander Khalifa Hifter’s forces and the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) made up of various militias, the Amazigh in Zuwara fear their border area and city could be attacked at any moment. Read More
By Heather Murdock
In a suburb of Tripoli on Monday, two gunshots ring out kilometers from where the fighting was the day before. Read More
By Mohammad Ayesh
Mercenaries affiliated to a security company operating in Iraq and the UAE travelled secretly from Iraq to Libya to fight alongside the troops of General Khalifa Haftar, according to electronic newspaper Arabi21. Read More
Dr. Mohammed Cherkaoui
What is alarming are these international interventions. A bad scenario is emerging through the combination of Emirati-France-American strategies to help duplicate the Sisi model in North Africa. The summer of 2019 is a good opportunity to reject all foreign conspiracies. Read More
UN diplomats say that the US is telling different people different things and, for now at least, a resolution is off the cards. Read More
Dr. Mohammed Cherkaoui
What is alarming are these international interventions. A bad scenario is emerging through the combination of Emirati-France-American strategies to help duplicate the Sisi model in North Africa. The summer of 2019 is a good opportunity to reject all foreign conspiracies. Read More
Adherents of a Salafi school, the Madkhalis, are gaining prominence on both sides of Libya’s divide, causing concerns about puritanical agendas imposed through military and religious institutions. Read More
By Steven A. Cook
Khalifa Haftar’s march on the Libyan capital is a bid for control of a fragmented state. Backed by a set of powerful governments, he could carry on the fight for a long time. Read More
Libyan General Khalifa Haftar has racked up some $25 billion of debt funding his self-styled army, through a mix of unofficial bonds, Russia-printed cash and deposits from eastern banks, according to Reuters. Read More
By Samar Sayyid
Detainees at a notorious prison in Libya are suffering abuse at the hands of militias led by warlord Khalifa Haftar. Read More
Adherents of a Salafi school, the Madkhalis, are gaining prominence on both sides of Libya’s divide, causing concerns about puritanical agendas imposed through military and religious institutions. Read More
Dr. Mohammed Cherkaoui
What is alarming are these international interventions. A bad scenario is emerging through the combination of Emirati-France-American strategies to help duplicate the Sisi model in North Africa. The summer of 2019 is a good opportunity to reject all foreign conspiracies. Read More
By Michael Young
A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security. Read More
By Federica Saini Fasanotti
General Khalifa Haftar started his long march toward power in May 2014. Under “Operation Dignity,” Haftar started a major fight against Islamists and militias in Benghazi and elsewhere in Libya’s east. Read More
Dr. Mohammed Cherkaoui
What is alarming are these international interventions. A bad scenario is emerging through the combination of Emirati-France-American strategies to help duplicate the Sisi model in North Africa. The summer of 2019 is a good opportunity to reject all foreign conspiracies. Read More
Adherents of a Salafi school, the Madkhalis, are gaining prominence on both sides of Libya’s divide, causing concerns about puritanical agendas imposed through military and religious institutions. Read More
By Roger Boyes
The US and Russia are foolish to think that a military strongman can solve the turmoil in Tripoli. Read More
Since our posting of 15 April fighting has continued around Tripoli between forces supporting the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) under Fayiz al-Sarraj and the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) commanded by Khalifa Haftar and backed by the House of Representatives (HoR) in Tobruk. Read More
Dr. Mohammed Cherkaoui
What is alarming are these international interventions. A bad scenario is emerging through the combination of Emirati-France-American strategies to help duplicate the Sisi model in North Africa. The summer of 2019 is a good opportunity to reject all foreign conspiracies. Read More
By Owen Bowcott
The government spent more than £11m of public funds resisting demands for an apology, compensation and prosecutions over MI6’s 2004 rendition of the Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhaj and his wife, Fatima Boudchar. Read More
Thirteen armed men with French diplomatic passports, who were detained in Tunisia last week while crossing from Libya, were providing logistical support to the forces of Libyan general Khalifa Haftar in his offensive on Tripoli, Tunisian sources have told Middle East Eye. Read More
“Life has to go on. It will end when it ends,” said Samira, who runs a salon in Tripoli. Read More
By Ashish Kumar Sen
US President Donald J. Trump’s apparent support for Khalifa Haftar, the leader of the self-styled Libyan National Army, has muddied the waters in a dangerous part of the world. But does it signal a shift in the US position? Read More
By John C.K. Daly
One ace in the hole that Russia can offer whatever government prevails in Libya is its expertise in assisting the revival of the country’s battered hydrocarbon industry. Read More
Why Haftar’s Tripoli Offensive Could Break the Country’s Deadlock
By Ethan Chorin
Earlier this month, as the United Nations prepared for yet another conference to end Libya’s nearly eight-year-long conflict, General Khalifa Haftar, the leader of the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), ordered an assault on the capital, Tripoli. Read More
By James M. Dorsey
There is little that Russia and the United States agree on these days. Renegade Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Belqasim Haftar may be a rare exception. Read More
By Ted Galen Carpenter
The Libya tragedy that Barack Obama’s administration unleashed with a U.S.-led NATO military intervention in 2011 has entered yet another violent phase. Read More
By Daniel Larison
The New York Times reports more on Trump’s sudden about-face in Libya: Read More
The White House disclosed, in a statement on Friday, that the US President, Donald Trump, made a phone call with the commander of the Dignity Operation, General Khalifa Haftar, on Monday. Read More