By John Vandiver
Russia’s burgeoning connections to a powerful Libyan warlord could signal that President Vladimir Putin sees an opportunity in Libya’s chaos to sideline the West and catapult Moscow into the position of power broker on NATO’s southern flank. Read More
By Zeinab Mohammed Salih
Despite IS’s defeat in Sirte last year, jihadis continue threatening minorities in the south. Minorities like the Toubou (pictured above) are still being intimidated.
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Julian Borger
A senior White House foreign policy official has pushed a plan to partition Libya, and once drew a picture of how the country could be divided into three areas on a napkin in a meeting with a senior European diplomat, the Guardian has learned. Read More
Possible developments in Libya, Italy, Spain and other transit countries over the next 6 months can be lead to the following scenarios: Read More
By Marcie Mersky
In societies emerging from violent conflict, past events will be denied by some and asserted by others. The narratives and analysis, even the basic facts, about what happened and why — the way they are discussed and remembered by different groups — are always contested. Read More
By Emadeddin Zahri Muntasser
Khalifa Haftar could be the next Assad if the U.S. and EU don’t act fast. Read More
Several news reports gave, recently, the impression that the civil war and the conflict between the Dignity Operation Militias and the Presidential Council forces will erupt in the southern region. Read More
By Irina Slav
A new group calling itself the Supreme Council for Oil, Gas and Water Resources in the Oases and the Basin has threatened to block the flow of crude oil from fields in eastern Libya to the oil export terminals, also in eastern Libya, since all the revenues are going to the central bank in Tripoli, in the west. Read More
By Sihem Bensedrine
The Tunisian Truth and Dignity Commission (TDC) was established in June 2014 by the National Constituent Assembly as an independent mechanism in charge of investigating mass human rights violations committed during half a century of despotism. Its ultimate goal is to restore collective memory. Read More
By Emadeddin Zahri Muntasser and Mohamed Fouad
The most pressing Libyan issue today is not the travel ban, political agreement, or ISIL – it’s corruption, which threatens to bring down the entire country. Read More
By Mohammed Deghayes
Karl Marx once said: “History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second and as a farce”, it is upon this notion that the free world has been unhinged in its involvement in the Syrian conflict. Read More
Under Gaddafi, the month of April has seen some of the worst abuses of human rights in Libyan history. Read More
By Robert Cusack
General Haftar has appointed a number of leaders loyal to previous dictator Gaddafi to his army – which one military council says is totally against the original revolutionary vision. Read More
The internationally recognized government wields little power and international support is fading. If nothing changes, further armed escalation is inevitable. Read More
By Chas Early
An 11-day siege of the Libyan Embassy in London was set in motion on this April 17, 1984 when shots fired from the building hit and killed 25-year-old Metropolitan Police constable Yvonne Fletcher. Read More
By Michelle McQuigge
A Canadian man who tried to organize an aid shipment to relatives stranded in a conflict-ridden area of Libya says he recently found out most of his family members had died during his fruitless efforts to send them food and water. Read More
By Duncan Robinson
Another day, another migration deal. Rome this weekend played host to 60 leaders of tribal groups from Libya, who were invited to come up with ways to secure the country’s 5,000km southern border. Read More
The House of Representatives has set out its terms for taking part in dialogue with the State Council on the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) approved at Skhirat, Morocco, 16 months ago. Read More
By Federica Saini Fasanotti and Karim Mezran
Recent developments in Libya make it hard to be optimistic about the survival of the country as a unified and stable state. Read More
By Colum Lynch and Kavitha Surana
Russia derailed the appointment of a dual American-German national as the U.N.’s top official in Libya, flexing its diplomatic muscle in a region where Moscow has been steadily seeking to expand its influence, according to several diplomatic sources. Read More
Libya’s worsening political conflict has pushed the country to the brink of civil war and could complicate ongoing efforts to combat extremist groups. Read More
By Salma El Wardany and Hatem Mohareb
Libya’s crude production rebounded to about 660,000 barrels a day as the OPEC nation’s biggest oil field resumed output after about a week of disruption. Read More
By Edwin Mora
Russia has provided assistance to two rivals in Libya — the prime minister of the United Nations-recognized government in Tripoli and the leader of a military faction that opposes him — in an effort to deepen military operations inside the North African country. Read More
Libyan spies emerge from the shadows to talk about what it’s like to fight a secret war against ISIS. Borzou Daragahi travelled to the Mediterranean island of Malta for a rare meeting with the men who run the feared mukhabarat. Read More
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
Italy’s interior ministry says 60 tribal leaders reached 12-point deal after 72 hours of secret talks in Rome. Read More
By Frederic Wehrey
Libya’s worsening political conflict has pushed the country to the brink of civil war and could complicate ongoing efforts to combat extremist groups. Read More
From 1 March to 31 March 2017, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) documented 24 civilian casualties – 20 deaths and 4 injuries – during the conduct of hostilities across Libya. 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 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