By Hadani Ditmars
As Manchester reels from a night of horror, in the aftermath of a bomb that went off in a stadium full of young people, all thoughts are with the families of the victims. Read More
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By Azmi Bishara
It is difficult, if not impossible, to make generalizations across time and space about army and politics, that is, outside a specific historical context encompassing local history, culture, social structure, and other determinants. Read More
By Fred Burton
Almost five years after attackers overran the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in an assault that left two diplomats and two security agents dead, not one person who participated in the crime has faced justice. Read More
By Tarek Abd El-Galil
Members of a USAID-supported Libyan youth group train university students on Libya’s transition to democracy. (USAID) Read More
Yusef Marda wasn’t naïve about the risks awaiting him when he set out on the long journey from his hometown of Kufra, deep in the Sahara Desert, to the nearest functioning civilian airport more than a thousand kilometres away. Read More
By Patrick Sawer and Robert Mendick
The wife of the prime suspect in the murder of Yvonne Fletcher was accused of clashing with Libyan dissidents in Britain, it emerged today. Read More
By Ayman al-Warfalli
At least 60 people were killed as rival Libyan forces clashed at a southern air base on Thursday, medical and military officials said, dimming hopes that tensions in the area can be calmed. Read More
Analysts say the recent meeting in the UAE may only serve to validate Haftar’s political legitimacy. Read More
France said on Thursday it was reviewing its position on the Libyan conflict and for the first time openly called for a united national army that included eastern militia commander Khalifa Haftar to battle Islamist militants. Read More
By Nayma Qayum
What country are most of Europe’s illegal migrants coming from? You might think Syria or some other war-torn nation. You would be wrong. Read More
By Aidan Lewis
The head of Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said he was determined to fend off an attempt by the U.N.-backed government to appropriate energy sector powers and said settling a dispute with Germany’s Wintershall over a contract was a “top priority”. Read More
By Rebecca Murray
Ubari, an oasis town in southern Libya’s Fezzan region, is home to members of both the Tuareg and Tubu tribes.These two tribes dominate this corner of Libya and contiguous desert regions in neighbouring countries. Read More
By Tom DiChristopher
Rising oil production in Libya and Nigeria threatens OPEC’s output cuts, but long-standing conflicts could keep barrels on the sidelines. Read More
By Dr Alia Brahimi and Jason Pack
Though accompanied by curiously little fanfare, the Obama administration’s most significant victory against the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) came not in Iraq or Syria, but in Libya. Read More
By Ibrahim Natil
The ongoing conflict between militant groups in Libya has caused the death of thousands, contributed to the refugee crisis and continues to threaten international peace and security. Read More
By Patrick Wintour
A German oil producer has been accused by the head of Libya’s National Oil Corporation of withholding more than $900m (£697m) from the Libyan state and colluding with unlawful efforts by Libya’s UN-backed government to take over the sale of the country’s vastly profitable oil contracts. Read More
By Tareq Haddad
The 25-year-old police officer was shot outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984. A suspect in the historic murder of police officer Yvonne Fletcher will not be prosecuted because the required evidence is being withheld on national security grounds. Read More
By: Housam Najjair
On the date of the third anniversary of Dignity Operation, which is being celebrated in eastern cities that are governed by military rule, journalist and political activist Mansour Abied, who has abandoned the operation, has crashed the party with heavy criticism and allegations that would rock any boat. Read More
By Mattia Toaldo
A highly publicised meeting in Abu Dhabi is the beginning of a new strategy from Haftar, one that doesn’t necessarily end with peace. Read More
By Salma El Wardany
Libya is ratcheting up oil output with less than two weeks to go before the world’s biggest exporters decide whether to extend production cuts to clear a supply glut. Read More
By Housam Najjair
An investigative team has taken on the issue of multiple suicides that took place in Libya over the past few months. Read More
By Saadun Suayeh
Let us not mince words. The situation in Libya is surrealistically complex and extremely fraught with danger. The aspirations of the Libyan people to democracy and the establishment of a modern, civil state seem far from realisation in the foreseeable future. The country is deeply divided, torn by conflicts and rampant lawlessness. Read More
By Dr. Mohamed Chtatou
The Libyans, in their everlasting costly civil war, seem to act as underage youths more inclined to settle their juvenile disputes and delinquency bouts with fist fights than verbal punch ups of political negotiations and wrangling. Read More
By Abdulkader Assad
“Haftar’s forces are outlaws who committed crimes and violations in front of the whole world. They kidnapped, killed, burned bodies, dug up the dead out of their graves, and mutilated the corpses.” Libyan Army confirms. Read More
By Safa Alharathy
In January and September 2016, activists from the city of Derna launched “Save Prisoners in Qirnada” campaign after receiving reports from families of detainees over gross violations committed against prisoners in Qirnada Prison, and despite the attempts of civil organizations in Derna to visit the prisoners, their request had gone unanswered. Read More
By Sami Zaptia.
Speaking on the opening day of the Libya Investment Summit in Istanbul 9-11 May, Jason Pack, Executive Director US-Libya Business Association, said that ‘‘Libya has cultural and structural challenges inherited from the Qaddafi era. Read More
By Mustafa Fetouri
The recent meeting between Gen. Khalifa Hifter and Fayez al-Sarraj in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates marked the first face-to-face encounter ever between the two Libyan rivals. Read More
By Wolfgang Pusztai
Americans say, an aircraft carrier is 100,000 tons of diplomacy. The Russians give it a little bit less… But in January of this year, their sole aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, was used as 60,000 tons of diplomacy, when they invited the controversial commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Field Marshall Heftar, to visit their ship. Read More
“This once-great country can have a great future. All it takes is political will, and the courage to compromise” … Boris Johnson Read More
By Claudia Gazzini
On 2 May 2017, the head of Libya’s internationally recognised government, Faiez al-Serraj, and his major military opponent, General Khalifa Haftar, met for the first time in over a year. Read More
Libya’s crude output exceeds 800,000 barrels a day and could be even higher if not for internal disputes that led to losses in production by Wintershall AG. Read More
Since 2011, Libya has become a hot spot of illicit weapons sales, many of which occur through messaging applications and social media networks, according to a report released Tuesday. Read More
By Valerie Stocker
“Passionate about the Tuareg” see themselves as cultural ambassadors. The musical project is the result of co-operation between two bands – one from southern Tunisia and the other from the Libyan Sahara. What unites them is a desire to revive the musical heritage of their forefathers through modern re-interpretation. Read More
By Housam Najjair
Libyan social media pages were awash with claims and counter claims as to the identity of the person killed by the notorious Mahmud Warfally, one of Khalifa Hefters’s main henchmen and commander in the so called Libyan National Army. Read More
The renegade Libyan general Khalifa Haftar has been offered the role of Libya’s army chief on condition he supports the UN-backed unity government in Tripoli, according to the government’s foreign minister. Read More
By Julian Pecquet
Libya’s chaotic politics will play out in Washington this week as some of the war-wracked nation’s top rivals scramble for the Donald Trump administration’s attention. Read More