By Peter Millett
We have known each other for two and a half years. But the time has come for me to leave. As Juliet said to Romeo: “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” It is hard to say goodbye, but I have to move on. Read More
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By Giorgio Cafiero
Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar’s Operation Dignity has earned him trust and support from certain internal and external players in Libya’s civil war. Read More
For one, the Libyan ordinary citizens are suffering on a daily basis form inadequate food commodities, lack of power and water governmental supply, fuel supply, and safe and beneficial education to kids as well as adults, and the list goes on. Read More
By Mark Watts
Police push for prosecution of man suspected of shooting dead WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy more than 30 years ago. Read More
By Anna Borshchevskaya and Mohamed Eljarh
The following report is based on points raised during a Mediterranean Advisory Group meeting on “Russia in the Mediterranean” held by the KAS Regional Program South Mediterranean in September 2017 in Tunis. Read More
Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman arrived in Libya on 10 January to discuss with Libyan leaders the implementation of the United Nations Action Plan for the country and ways to bolster international support for Libya. Read More
By Jalel Harchaoui
To many Libyan households, the top security threat plaguing their daily lives isn’t the risk of being caught in the crossfire between contending militias, falling victim to a jihadi group, or being kidnapped for ransom. Read More
By Austin Bodetti
General Khalifa Haftar is imposing a bloody siege on Derna with diplomatic and military support from the Emiratis, reports Austin Bodetti. Read More
By Fathi Al-Fadali
It should be noted that the call for elections in Libya has rattled the Libyan political scene, and succeeded in shaking up political bodies in decision-making positions in the Libyan arena. Read More
By Raouf Farrah
While many Amazigh were marginalized and discriminated against during the Gaddafi era, they are now the vanguard in promoting minority rights. Read More
The July 2017 peace plan the UN worked out is still limping along. The UN backed GNA (Government of National Accord in Tripoli) has continued to weaken while the HoR (House of Representatives government in Tobruk) now controls or contests most of the country. Read More
By Azeem Ibrahim
Though it continues to be overshadowed by the conflicts in other parts of the world, the civil war in Libya is still going strong. Read More
By Bill Roggio & Alexandra Gutowski
The United States launched a record number of airstrikes in Yemen and Somalia in 2017, and more importantly has reinitiated the targeting of terrorists in Pakistan and Libya. Read More
By Karlos Zurutuza
Despite the advances they have made since 2011, Libya’s largest minority still struggles for its most basic demands. Read More
By Mark Micallef and Tuesday Reitano
Migrant arrivals in Europe from Libya have dropped, but interventions could undermine Libya’s peace process. Read More
The recent assassination of Salah Al-Qatrani, a Libyan activist, marks the 201st political assassination in the country since 2017 and the first of 2018. Read More
By Robert Springborg
The negative political and economic trends that characterised the Middle East in 2017, look set to intensify in 2018. At whatever level one reviews the region’s prospects for the coming year, they look bleak. Read More
By Jazya Gebril
On September 25, 2017, the Wahbi al-Bouri Cultural Center in Benghazi’s area 602 screened a documentary about mines. Read More
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By Sami Zaptia.
Khalifa Hafter, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), the Libyan army recognized by the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR), has said that Libya is not ready yet for democracy. Read More
Libya earned $14 billion in oil revenues in 2017, nearly three times more than in the previous year, allowing it to halve its budget deficit, the central bank said, amid a partial recovery in oil output despite continued political and economic turmoil. Read More
By Sudarsan Raghavan
At one end of Al Nahda Street, three families with small children live in a shell-pocked townhouse with an unexploded bomb embedded in its roof. At the other end, an old man has spent weeks eating one meal a day. He is on the edge of begging. Read More
By Charles Bremner
A businessman is to be deported to France after being arrested at Heathrow airport on a warrant from French judges investigating claims by the Gaddafi family that it bankrolled the presidential election campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy. Read More
By Abdullah Ben Ibrahim
A heavily armed brigade from Tarhuna city, known as Kani Brigade, took control on Sunday of Garabulli (Castelverde) town, some 70 km east of Tripoli, and forced the Presidential Council brigades stationed in two checkpoints out of the town. Read More
By Senussi Bsaikri
I have looked into the motives of the Dignity Operation the early days of its launch, and the focus of this debate was on two fundamental elements. Read More
By Mustafa Fetouri
In a surprising move, Gen. Khalifa Hifter, Libya’s eastern military strongman, announced his acceptance of elections in Libya as a way out of the political deadlock in the war-ravaged country. Read More
Summary: continuing anarchy. Limited bloodshed but the population suffering. UN efforts stalled, elections not very likely. Read More
Since 2014, Libya has been split between rival military factions and governments. Economics student Mutassim Al Misrati lost his leg in an RPG attack in April 2014 while fighting in Benghazi, his home city. Read More
Libya’s 2017 death toll of 433 people included 79 children and ten women, according to figures released by the National Human Rights Commission in Libya (NHRCL). Read More
By Nadine Dahan
Rabie al-Jayash was accused of espionage for using the minority language and possessing a book written in the Amazigh alphabet. Read More
No one is free until everyone is.
By Benjamin L. Crump,
The word “slavery” typically evokes images of Civil War-era America, of a time when the North and the South were at each other’s throats and blacks were forced into arduous work without pay or fair treatment. Read More
Libya’s political transition after February has been marred by a prolonged period of political fragmentation, violent conflict, and economic dislocation, Tarik Yousef – from Brookings Doha Center has stated. Read More
By Joseph Hammond
Libya is becoming a mercenary’s dream with multiple factions competing for hired guns from across the Middle East and Africa. Regional experts and a report released by the United Nations make this abundantly clear. Read More
By Martin Lemberg-Pedersen
In recent weeks, the unfolding tragedy of refugees stuck in the Libyan migration system has caught the eye of the European public. The conditions they face are terrible: beatings, torture, systematic rape, slave trade and killings. Read More
Libya is in danger of losing a huge part of its cultural heritage. Ongoing conflicts are partly to blame, but some historical shrines are being deliberately destroyed, the graves they house defiled. Read More
By Irina Slav
Islamic State forces in Libya may be planning an attack on the country’s so-called Oil Crescent, where its export terminals and many fields are located, a senior official from the U.S. Africa Command told Asharq Al-Awsat. Read More
By Afra Aksoy
A total of 433 people, including 79 children and 10 women, were killed during violence in Libya in 2017, according to a human rights group Monday. Read More