By Tarek El-Tablawy
A French-led effort to reunify fractured Libya failed to consult powerful local forces and risks achieving little beyond boosting the legitimacy of a renegade general who has recently racked up significant battlefield gains. Read More
By Eric Maurice
French president Emmanuel Macron called Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni on Thursday evening (27 July) to defuse tensions amid accusations of “colonialism” in Libya and economic “protectionism”. Read More
By Wolfram Lacher
The 17th February Revolution has fundamentally reshaped Libya’s political landscape. Read More
By Ashish Kumar Sen
Diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the chaos that has prevailed in Libya since 2011 have legitimized Khalifa Haftar, a former Libyan general whose forces have been accused of torture and executing prisoners, according to the Atlantic Council’s Karim Mezran. Read More
Fresh elections next year could be the key after ceasefire deal brokered by French president. Read More
The GNA (Government of National Accord in Tripoli) and HoR (House of Representatives in Tobruk) governments have both agreed to a nationwide ceasefire, elections in early 2018 and UN recognition of the LNA (Libyan National Army). Read More
By Patrick Haimzadeh
Foreign interference favouring one faction or another is stopping Libyans from creating their own political destiny. Read More
Attacks, Threats, and Harassment
Human rights defenders, activists, and social media bloggers have been physically attacked, detained, threatened, harassed, and disappeared by armed groups, Read More
By Nick Ottens
Khalifa Haftar and Fayez al-Sarraj agree to stop fighting, but it’s not hard to imagine how their deal might unravel. Read More
By Alessandra Cardone
National strategic interests, which played a major role in driving France’s most recent diplomatic initiative on Libya, collide with those of Italy, an Italian analyst told Xinhua. Read More
By Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban
Libya till the 2011 uprising was a stable country that was of importance to the North African region as much as it was to Europe. Read More
By Patrick Wintour and Chris Stephen
French president says Fayez al-Sarraj and Khalifa Haftar have shown ‘historic courage’ at the meeting outside Paris. Read More
In support of the action of the United Nations and in the framework of the implementation of the Skhirat Agreement, Read More
By Paul Sullivan
The North African country’s electricity grid relies on the oil and natural gas that fuel its power generation plants. Hence security associated with these resources is key and there should be a focus on decentralized electricity systems. Read More
By Wolfram Lacher
Of all the states affected by the Arab Spring, Libya has experienced the deepest transformation to date. The diversity of actors emerging on the political scene is staggering. Read More
By Malak Ali Altaeb
Renewable energy is currently the gate to the future. Europe and the United States are taking big steps towards the continuous use of alternative resources for sustainability and unending development. Read More
By Elaine Ganley
French President Emmanuel Macron will host a meeting of the two main rival leaders of chaotic Libya, his office said Monday, to try to “contribute to an end to the Libyan crisis,” which is feeding Islamic militants, people traffickers preying on migrants and instability in the region. Read More
Khalifa Haftar, the military commander who controls the east of the Libya, has reportedly been receiving Israeli military aid following meetings with Israeli intelligence that were allegedly mediated by the United Arab Emirates. Read More
By Hamish Macdonald
Akram Ben Ramadan was born in Manchester. He works as a mechanic, conducting MOT inspections — the annual check on vehicles to make sure they are roadworthy. Read More
By Lisa Clifford
When International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda addressed the UN Security Council in May, she assured the assembled nations that Libya was a priority in 2017. Halfway into the year, there’s little sign of progress or justice. Read More
A video was posted on social media on Sunday showing the infamous IS-styled commander of the eastern Saiqa Force of Operation Dignity Mahmoud Al-Werfalli conducting with fighters under his command summary execution of over a dozen persons. Read More
By Nada Bashir
Despite hopes in the west that the Gulf would remain a pillar of stability amid ongoing political turmoil in the Middle East, the Qatar crisis has brought to light deep-rooted troubles which threaten to divide the region further. Read More
By Aidan Lewis
Buoyed by the end of a long military campaign in Benghazi and new signs of foreign support, Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar has been signaling his intent to extend his power to the capital, Tripoli. Read More
Seven months after Libyan forces defeated Daesh in the coastal city of Sirte, hundreds of bodies of foreign militants still lie stored in freezers as authorities negotiate with other governments to decide what to do with them, local officials say. Read More
By Elijah Alperin
In international journalism, a local journalist hired by foreign reporters for his or her special knowledge of the local area, culture, and language is called a fixer. This series explores the untold stories behind their largely unrecognized work. Read More
By Aaron Mak
The Afghan girls weren’t the only team to struggle to get to the U.S. Read More
By Youssef Cherif
Despite widespread praise for Youssef Chahed’s anti-corruption efforts, they also risk inflaming elite tensions and undermining Tunisia’s democratic transition. Read More
Libyan writer and politician Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Hangari has said that the United States and Russia, in cooperation with other members of the UN Security Council, are discussing a new resolution by the UN Security Council to take over the administration of Libya. Read More
Today, the European Commission has announced an additional €10 million in humanitarian aid for people most in need in Libya as violence and instability continue to affect vulnerable populations. Read More
By Mustafa Fetouri
To say the lives of Libyans since their so called revolution in 2011 has been all but an uphill struggle against, sometimes, the impossible is an understatement! Read More
By Donald Levit
On July 17, 2017, the Prime Minister of Libya’s Government of National Accord (NGA) Fayez al-Sarraj announced that the country is close to reaching crude oil production of 1 million barrels per day. Read More
By Martin Hannan
July 20, 2017 is the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1977 war between Libya and Egypt, which lasted just four days. Read More
By Alexis Wheeler
UN Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Tuesday expressed concerns that the Libyan National Army (LNA) has committed and will continue to commit summary executions of men that have been taken prisoner. Read More
Repudiate Discriminatory Edict
(Beirut) – The Supreme Fatwa Committee linked to one of Libya’s competing governments should repeal a discriminatory religious edict accusing `Ibadi faith followers in Libya of “deviance” and adherence to an “infidel” doctrine, Human Rights Watch said today. Read More
By Sabina Henneberg and Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski
In July, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the self-proclaimed leader of the Libyan National Army, one of the major armed groups in the battle for Libya, announced that his forces had liberated Benghazi from jihadist fighters. Read More
By Richard Galustian
The struggle for power from the ruins of Libya is likely to get even uglier, and what is becoming decidedly more noticeable is the role of other interfering states who are betting on one side or another in the game for the prize that is Libya. Read More