By Penny Starr
Amaal Elhaaj is fighting the same radical Islamic terrorism that threatens people around the globe, including in her home country of Libya. Read More
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By Taha Kılınç
A news item we received from Libya in recent days got lost among the hot agenda topics again. A 110-year-old man had passed away in the country’s eastern city of al Bayda. Read More
By: Husam Bash Imam
Following the toppling of the tyrant military regime in Libya in 2011, which ruled the country for 42 years, with a mix of ideologies of Marxism, leftist and Arab Nationalism movements, with tribal support, it tried to harmonize tribal beliefs date back to old centuries. Read More
A delegation of Libyan tribal and women leaders from the National Movement for Libya (Movement) concluded its visit to the United States today by calling on the UN to take a balanced approach to the Libyan peace process that respects the demographics of the country and strengthens cooperation with tribes and representatives of cities and civil society. Read More
By Christian Caryl
When Zakaria Hagig decided to leave his war-torn homeland for college in Colorado, he never dreamed that he’d one day be suing the president of the United States. Read More
By Giancarlo Elia Valori
Few days ago the press reported that dozens of Russian military “contractors”, supplied by the RSB Group, were already operating in Eastern Libya to remove mines from the areas around Benghazi, in a region recently freed from jihadists by the armed forces of Khalifa Haftar, who ever more seems to be the pivot of Russian geopolitics in Libya. Read More
By Kersten Knipp
Russia is intensifying its political and military involvement in Libya as part of a new Middle East strategy, which has several objectives. Some of them benefit the region and others are mostly advantageous for Moscow. Read More
The Libyan Organization for policies and strategies, which is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization, publishes monthly reports on the situation in Libya. This is part two of the February report on security and military situations in Libya. Read More
By Andreas Bock
The fear of Islam is socially construed and tied to societally entrenched anti-Muslim racism that fails to distinguish between Islam and Islamism. Read More
In the five years since the ouster of longtime strongman ruler Moammar Gadhafi, Libya has fractured into pieces. Competing governments and associated rival militias wrestle for power, allowing jihadist militants to establish themselves. Read More
By Matteo de Bellis
When he saw boats in the distance, Issa knew he was going to live. It was July 2014 and he had spent hours in the sea, clinging to a plastic petrol container while women, men and children drowned around him. Read More
By Massinissa Benlakehal
The involvement of several foreign powers in the Libyan crisis is a real obstacle to reaching a political solution, says Libyan State Council President Abdulrahman Sewehli. Read More
By Barbara Bibbo
Moscow is trying to become an arbiter between Haftar and Sarraj and position itself as an indispensable negotiator. Read More
By Abdullah Ben Ibrahim
Following is a summary of current situations in the capital Tripoli following two days of chaos and fighting: Read More
Leader of rival National Salvation Government injured in attack by UN-backed Government of National Accord in heavy fighting in capital Read More
By Abdullah Ben Ibrahim
The Ministry of Finance has started using the national ID number for pay to eliminate corruption in government jobs. The Ministry of Finance released Monday a report about the number of Libya’s state workers and pay after matching them with the national ID number. Read More
By Senussi Bsaikri
Ganfouda, for some House of Representatives (HoR) members and for the official spokesperson of the affiliated army that led by General Khalifa Haftar is a terrorist hotbed, where fighters and civilians are equal, thus came the indiscriminate military operations, the whole area is seized, bombed with planes and artillery. Read More
By Lou Lorscheider
Kremlin officials and Russian lawmakers are denying published reports that Moscow has deployed a team of special forces and drones to a military base in Egypt near the Libyan border. Read More
By Jamie Merrill
Visit by delegation to eastern Libya this month took place despite Russia-aligned Khalifa Haftar’s opposition to UN-backed government in Tripoli. Read More
The Libyan Organization for policies and strategies, is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization. It publishes monthly reports on the situation in Libya. This is part one of February report on security and military situations in Libya. Read More
By Emily Estelle
Libyan factions’ fight for control of the country’s oil resources may set in motion a larger conflict between rival power centers. Read More
By Karim Mezran
The Benghazi Defense Brigades (BDB)’s recent successful offensive conducted against the Libyan National Army (LNA) in the Gulf of Sidra—in which it seized the oil ports and terminals of Ras Lanuf and Es Sider—leads one to consider its effects on the Skhirat agreement. Read More
By Emily Burchfield
If the conflict in Libya is to be resolved, key actors to the conflict—including Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj of the Government of National Accord, and Speaker of the House of Representatives Aguila Saleh—should negotiate a deal to stabilize the country, former US Special Envoy to Libya, Ambassador Jonathan Winer said Thursday. Read More
Hundreds if not thousands of armed men are converging on Libya’s main oil shipping terminals, which the rival powers in the country’s east and west are fighting to control in a battle being watched by global oil markets. Read More
By Dr. Theodore Karasik
Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s plans for Libya took an abrupt turn for the worse marking yet again another stage of the Libyan Civil War. Read More
By Zainab Calcuttawala
Last Friday, news broke that the Benghazi Defense Brigades seized control of two major Libyan ports on the “Oil Crescent,” posing a real challenge to Khalifa Haftar and Russia’s grip on the area after weeks of clashes. Read More
A force of several dozen armed private security contractors from Russia operated until last month in a part of Libya under control of regional leader Khalifa Haftar, the head of the firm that hired the contractors told Reuters. Read More
A force of several dozen armed private security contractors from Russia operated until last month in a part of Libya that is under the control of regional leader Khalifa Haftar, Reuters reported the head of the firm that hired the contractors as saying. Read More
By Chris Stephen
A fierce battle for control of Libya’s oil ports is raging this weekend as worried American officials claim that Russia is trying to “do a Syria” in the country, supporting the eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar in an attempt to control its main source of wealth. Read More
By: Shawn Snow
“It is very concerning, senator,” Waldhauser said in response to Arizona Sen. John McCain’s question about Russian involvement in the region. Read More
By Rachel Ansley
In order to end the civil war in Libya, those competing for power must meet, negotiate, and establish a path to free and fair elections early in 2018, Jonathan Winer, a former US State Department special envoy for Libya, said at the Atlantic Council on March 9. Read More
After the collapse of Haftar’s forces at the oil crescent region, Many questions were raised with no convincing answers. Observers believe that BDB called Haftar’s BLUFF. Read More
It could be said that February 2017 in Libya is the month of the beginning of “shuffling of cards”. Read More
The battle for the central oil crescent terminals will only deepen divisions in Libya, former deputy prime minister Awad Al-Barasi has told the Libya Herald. Read More
By Mohamed Fouad and Emadeddin Muntasser
The collapse of the Libyan government under Gaddafi, exposed a lack of transparency and accountability that were part of Gaddafi’s oppressive and corrupt economy. Read More
By Tom Kington
Suobhe Altmmo had fled to Libya in 2012 hoping for a better life. He and his wife and children settled in the coastal town of Zawiya, where he planned to work as an electrician. Read More