By Wolfgang Pusztai
On March 30, 2016, Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj and a few other members of Libya’s Presidency Council (PC) and Government of National Accord (GNA), the two government bodies that the UN-brokered Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) established, arrived to Tripoli’s Abu Sita navy base after having operated in Tunisia for three months. Read More
By Frederic Wehrey
Southern Libya remains a region of endemic instability wracked by communal conflict, a shortage of basic services, rampant smuggling, and fragmented or collapsed institutions. Read More
By Richard J. C. Galustian
The one year anniversary of the General National Accord (GNA) created by the UN and headed by Prime Minister Fayez Serraj is today. Read More
By Maimuna Aghliw
I am often asked what it’s like living in Libya. I mean, people are curious about a country where all that happens is kidnappings and killings, seasoned with everyday chaos – at least that’s what the media says. Read More
A power struggle for control of Libya’s oil is threatening to deepen splits in the country and undermine the fragile authority of the UN-backed Libyan Government of National Accord, the GNA. Read More
In-depth: Violence and protests in Libya’s capital shed light on the manifold divisions that impede the country’s unity government from imposing its authority, explains Valerie Stocker. Read More
By Emadeddin Muntasser and Mohamed Fouad
A common theme among many postcolonial countries in the Middle East is the difficulty of placing various religious and ethnic groups under the same state’s flag. Read More
By Nedal M. Swehli
Six years ago on March 19, 2011, the United States started its military intervention in Libya. Read More
By Muhajer
Another article of classical disinformation. This one is written by a Professor at the University of Mohammed V in Rabat. It is not clear how he reached all of his conclusions about Libyans’ hopes and political opinions. Read his piece and make up your mind. Read More
By Muhajer
Some articles are very hard to classify as a source of misinformation or disinformation. This is one example. Read More
By Amanda Kadlec and Christopher S. Chivvis
Indications that Russia could intervene militarily in Libya’s messy civil war are growing. If it does, the Trump White House will face a tangle of unpleasant choices with far-reaching consequences. Read More
Chairman of the Tripoli-based Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) Mustafa Sanalla spoke out against a new attempt he claimed was being made to sell oil outside the monopoly of the NOC. Read More
The chaos that has crippled Libya since 2011 is sorting itself out but not in a way acceptable to the UN and the West. Now Russia is openly backing the HoR faction that is opposed by the UN but is gaining support within Libya. Read More
The former US envoy to Libya, Jonathan Winer, called the United Nations (UN) and the experts of human rights to investigate the crimes of the forces of the Dignity Operation that led by General Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi. Read More
The commander of the Commandos forces that affiliated with the Dignity Operation, Wanis Bu-Khamada, hold “mentally ill soldiers” the responsibility for the graves digging and the corpses desecration. Read More
By Elissa Miller
Libya’s most valuable resource will continue to be a flashpoint of conflict in the divided country. Read More
By Editorial Board
America’s commander for its military role in the North African state of Libya calls it a “powder keg.” What he doesn’t and probably couldn’t explain is why the fate of Libya matters to the United States. Read More
By Roland Oliphant
Russia has deployed troops to Egypt amid a strengthening of ties between Moscow and General Khalifa Haftar, the warlord who controls much of the eastern part of Libya, a US general said on Friday. Read More
By Dmitriy Frolovskiy
Recent reports that Russia deployed special forces to an air base in Egypt near the border with Libya highlight the Kremlin’s growing concern with the domestic situation of the long-standing Soviet client. Read More
By Policy Analysis Unit
Forces loyal to retired Libyan military officer Khalifa Haftar regained control of Libya’s coastal “Oil Crescent” on March 13. This shift is highly significant, since the bay, roughly 200 km long, extends between the oil ports of Sirte and Ras Lanuf, and this area, as well as the oil fields inland, dominate Libyan oil production and export. Read More
The black fur hat looked odd on a Libyan warlord. But fur is de rigueur in wintertime Moscow, which has become an essential stop for Middle Eastern leaders like Khalifa Haftar, who visited twice in 2016. Read More
By Karim Mezran and Mattia Toaldo
As fighting heats up between rival armed groups and Russia increases its involvement, a power vacuum threatens to tear the country apart. Read More
Libyan National Army (LNA) forces may have committed war crimes, including killing and beating civilians, and summarily executing and desecrating bodies of opposition fighters in the eastern city of Benghazi on and around March 18, 2017, Human Rights Watch said today. Read More
By Marwan Kabalan
Given the country’s complex tribal composition and the matrix of global interests, no single party in the country’s multi-layered civil war will triumph entirely. Read More
By Muhajer
This report is based on the visit of a delegation of British politicians, paid for by a right-wing think tank, to meet with renegade retired military man Khalifa Haftar . Read More
By Vladimir Frolov
If the Kremlin’s strongman restores a Gaddafi-light dictatorship in Libya, Russia will reap an economic — and geopolitical — windfall. Read More
By Valerie Stocker
After one year in office, Libya′s Government of National Accord is on the verge of collapse. While its ministers are trying to maintain order in the capital, the armed opposition is challenging them for strategic positions. Read More
By Robert Cusack
A Libyan tribe has released a former colonel after almost five years of captivity, as part of an alliance deal with the east Libyan military leader General Khalifa Haftar. Read More
By Arnaud Delalande
How did the Libyan National Army seize back the oil crescent after the lightning offensive by rival Benghazi militia? Read More
By Eric Schmitt
After B-52 bombers struck an Islamic State training camp in Libya in January, killing more than 80 militants, American officials privately gloated. On the heels of losing its coastal stronghold in Surt the month before, the Islamic State seemed to be reeling. Read More
By Lamine Ghanmi
The impact that increased Russian influence will have on Libya’s conflict remains to be seen.19 months after becoming a key player in the Syrian war, is increasing its military presence in Libya and is likely to back Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar in the tumultuous civil conflict. Read More
By Maryline Dumas
Warring factions see Libyan oil production central to securing power in country torn apart by political and military rivalries.
By Mattia Toaldo & Karim Mezran
The alternative is the resumption of fighting at the levels of summer 2014, which led to the establishment of ISIS in the country. Read More
Dozens of armed factions have battled for control of oil-rich Libya since the 2011 fall of longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Read More
Men loyal to Khalifa Haftar reportedly dug up dead bodies and defiled the remains after fighting in Benghazi. Video shows mean exhuming a grave in Benghazi.
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By Irina Slav
The Libyan National Oil Corporation expects to soon regain control over the Es Sider and Ras Lanuf oil terminals, which were the point of clashes between the Libyan National Army and the Benghazi Defense Brigades that ended last week with the LNA taking the ports back from the BDB. Read More