The UN sponsored unity government known as the GNA (Government of National Accord) has been in Tripoli since early 2016 but has been unable to placate or unite the many factions that have been keeping the country in chaos since 2012. Read More
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By Jamie Prentis
Regional military governor insists order was given to stop people joining terrorist groups in other countries. An order preventing men and women ages 18-45 in eastern Libya from travelling abroad without first obtaining security clearances is being met with outrage. Read More
Garnada Prison that is located in Garnada suburban town in Shahat city, eastern Libya, has become one of the worst notorious jails in Cyrenaica, Libya’s east. Read More
The Libyan Amazigh High Council (LAHC) has declared the Amazigh (Berber or Tamazight) language as an official language in the cities and districts inhabited by the Amazigh in Libya. Read More
By Frederic Wehrey and Wolfram Lacher
The new U.S. administration needs to send strong signals to forces on all sides of the Libya conflict, as well as their foreign patrons, and make clear that a political settlement presents the only viable path out of the chaos. Read More
An Arab diplomatic source told “Libyaprospect” that Cairo and Abu-Dhabi are becoming not happy from the commander of the army of the House of Representatives (HoR), General Khalifa Haftar, after supporting him since he started his war in Benghazi in 2014. Read More
By Abdulkader Assad
The Arab Maghreb Scholars Association (AMSA) has condemned the crippling siege laid by the Dignity Operation forces on families trapped in Ganfouda, western Benghazi. Read More
By Tasnim Abderrahim
To address the Mediterranean migrant crisis, the EU is seeking closer partnerships with North African states.Since the controversial deal between Turkey and the European Union (EU) in March 2016 has largely succeeded in preventing refugees from reaching Europe through the eastern Mediterranean route, EU decisionmakers have turned their attention to the central Mediterranean. Read More
By Rumana Ahmed
When President Obama left, I stayed on at the National Security Council in order to serve my country. I lasted eight days. In 2011, I was hired, straight out of college, to work at the White House and eventually the National Security Council. My job there was to promote and protect the best of what my country stands for. Read More
By Mattia Toaldo
A final deal in Libya is impossible without Haftar, but so is one under the conditions he’s demanding. A way round must be found. “There is no deal without Haftar,” European and Arab foreign ministers have been saying since last spring. Read More
By Osama Al-Sharif
As he managed to stretch his control over most of eastern Libya, including the oil fields, after ridding Benghazi of militant threats, Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar is now looking to capitalize on his gains in a bid to have the final say on his country’s future. Read More
By Khaled Ashour
For years, Libya has been an attractive area for people from the six surrounding countries, African sub-Saharan, as well as Asian countries. Read More
A leader of the Muslim Brotherhood group in Libya, Bashir Al-Kabti, has denounced the statements made by Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar in which he described the Brotherhood as a “terrorist” group and alleged that it constitutes the greatest threat to the country. Read More
By Atef Elatrash
I understand the collateral depression state accompanied the sixth anniversary of the Feb. 17th revolution (call it a calamity, conspiracy, or civil war, I will not burn you with a security report). Read More
By Patrick Wintour
Libyan national oil corporation says contract with Rosneft to redevelop oilfields lays groundwork for further investment. Russia has significantly boosted its involvement in Libya by signing a potentially major contract to help redevelop Libyan oilfields. Read More
A bleak assessment by European border officials of the turmoil in Libya is casting doubt on the prospects for European Union efforts to work more closely with authorities in the strife-torn country to curb migration flows across the Mediterranean. Read More
The trial of the son of Gaddafi did not meet international standards and he should be brought in front of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the United Nations said today. Read More
By Alessandra Bajec
Thousands of Libyans have been forced into exile by conflict in Libya. Now Justice First is helping some of them go home. Last month, a convoy of 19 Libyan families left the Egyptian capital Cairo for the city of Tobruk in eastern Libya. Read More
By Khalid Mahmoud
Asharq Al-Awsat learned on Saturday of indirect contact between U.S. President Donald Trump representatives and leader of the Libyan National Army (LNA)General Khalifa Haftar, indicating the openness of the Trump administration to the Libyan file unlike his predecessor Barack Obama. Read More
By Robin Mills
On the anniversary of its revolution, Friday last week, Libya’s oil industry had been in chaos for six years. Large oil companies active there – ConocoPhillips, Hess and Suncor among them – have stopped including it in their forecasts. Read More
By Richard Galustian
The day before the sixth anniversary of the so called revolution in Libya on the Friday the 17th February, the UN backed GNA prime minister sat in a hotel room in Cairo for a call that never came. Read More
By Yousef Al-Azmi
Years after the Lockerbie crisis in which Libya was implicated, several international bodies attempted to contain the crisis and set up effective solutions for ensuring an acceptable end. Read More
Libya’s transition has been bogged down by insecurity and chaos, leaving the country looking like a “failed state” six years after the uprising and Western military intervention that ended Gaddafi’s rule. Read More
By Nancy Porsia
Fighting at Tripoli’s international airport was still under way when, in July 2014, the diplomatic missions of European countries, the United States and Canada were shut down. Read More
Editorial: The opinions and attitudes had differed among the Libyans on celebrating the sixth anniversary of 17th Feb. revolution. Most of the views didn’t change on the succession of the revolution itself in collapsing the dictatorship and the corruption. Read More
By Jamie Doward
High court to consider review of decision not to prosecute former MI6 director over Abdel Hakim Belhaj case. The Crown Prosecution Service may have to reveal documents on the case to his legal team. Read More
By Sami Zaptia
Six years on from its February 2011 revolution, Libya’s political scene is characterized by fragmentation and polarization. The constantly shifting political and military allegiances and contested legitimacy since 2014 have today resulted in three Libyan ‘‘governments’’ claiming legitimacy. Read More
By Kim Sengupta
The focus of Nato’s conference in Brussels, the first since Donald Trump got to the White House, was on the message he sent to an organisation of Western allies he had called “obsolete” while speaking of his admiration for Vladimir Putin. Read More
By Rupesh Jang Shah
February 2017 marks eight years of the beginning of the Arab Spring protest of 2011 in Libya, which led to the ousting and ultimate death of Muammar Gaddafi (the deposed leader of Libya). Read More
By Chris Stephen
A new offensive by militias to capture Libya’s eastern oilfields has set back the state oil company’s hopes that foreign firms will return to the country’s upstream – and creates new doubts about its ability to sustain an oil-output recovery. Read More
By Giuseppe Dentice
The Egyptian military response through heavy air strikes on the cities of Darnah and Sirte – as a consequence of the kidnapping and beheading of 21 Egyptian Copts by a Libyan cell affiliated to the Islamic State (IS) in February 2015 – represents so far the peak of Egypt’s involvement in the Libyan affaire. Read More
By Arwa Ibrahim
On the sixth anniversary of the Libyan uprisings, Libyan political leader Abdel Hakim Belhaj says a military leadership will never take hold. Read More
By Joseph V. Micallef
With the future of the Assad regime now well in hand, the Kremlin has turned its attention to another former Soviet client in the Middle East – Libya. Read More
By Salem Solomon
The European Union is touting a plan it says will help Libya curb the number of migrants leaving its shores, but some advocates believe the plan does little more than trap African and Middle Eastern migrants in a war zone. Read More
By Michael Singh
At first glance, it would appear that the Middle East President Donald J. Trump now faces is far different than the region which confronted President Barack Obama in 2009. Read More
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world. One of the main aims of (IPAF) is to encourage the translation of Arabic literature into other languages. Read More