Servet Günerigök
Bayraktar TB2 is ‘utilitarian and reliable—qualities reminiscent’ of AK-47 rifle that changed warfare in 20th century: WSJ
Armed low-cost drones made by Turkey are reshaping battlefields and geopolitics, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Read More
Alison Pargeter
After ten chaotic, violence-filled years following the fall of the Qadhafi regime, there is a rare ray of hope on Libya’s horizon.
Alison Pargeter
After ten chaotic, violence-filled years following the fall of the Qadhafi regime, there is a rare ray of hope on Libya’s horizon.
Alessia Melcangi
Although the restarting of the political peace process in Libya refocused attention on domestic actors, it is still necessary to look at the external players’ moves to assess the possibility of real appeasement among rival Libyan factions. Cairo is one of the main capitals to pay attention to. Read More
Daniel Van Boom
Libyan forces were “hunted down and remotely engaged” by an autonomous drone, a UN report reads. Read More
Libyan politicians have moved with salutary speed in 2021 to reunify their divided country. With UN help, the new government should hasten to clear two last hurdles: establishing a legal framework for elections and clarity about who holds supreme command of the armed forces. Read More
Ufuk Necat Tasci
Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar, the self-styled commander of the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), recently invited the members of the Government of National Unity, including Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, to attend a military parade to commemorate the “Operation Dignity’s” seventh anniversary at Benina Airbase in Benghazi on May 29. Read More
Sudarsan Raghavan
As Russian mercenaries fled the Libyan capital last summer, they left behind booby-trapped houses and yards. Read More
Libyan politicians have moved with salutary speed in 2021 to reunify their divided country. With UN help, the new government should hasten to clear two last hurdles: establishing a legal framework for elections and clarity about who holds supreme command of the armed forces. Read More
Dan De Luce
The Biden administration is looking at reopening the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, which has been closed since 2014, two years after the Benghazi attack. Read More
Abigail Corey & Ali Alansari
A dialogue process aims to help persons with disabilities and other disenfranchised groups with undetermined legal status. Read More
Libyan politicians have moved with salutary speed in 2021 to reunify their divided country. With UN help, the new government should hasten to clear two last hurdles: establishing a legal framework for elections and clarity about who holds supreme command of the armed forces. Read More
Sarah Carabott
War and the pandemic did not trigger a mass exodus of people. Here’s why. Read More
Dorian Jone
International pressure is growing on Turkey over its military presence in Libya. Turkey deployed hundreds of soldiers and thousands of Syrian fighters in support of the Libyan Government of National Accord in its battle against forces of Libya’s General Khalifa Hafta, who is backed by Russian and Sudanese mercenaries. Read More
Libyan politicians have moved with salutary speed in 2021 to reunify their divided country. With UN help, the new government should hasten to clear two last hurdles: establishing a legal framework for elections and clarity about who holds supreme command of the armed forces. Read More
Bill Drexel
Three and a half years after Italian officials launched an aggressive campaign against humanitarian search and rescue efforts off their southern coast, Italian magistrates have finally leveled criminal charges on the NGOs and individuals it targeted for saving lives at sea. Read More
Emadeddin Badi
Ten years into Libya’s revolution, the proliferation of armed actors and a succession of sclerotic governments have taken their toll on the country’s security. Read More
Libyan politicians have moved with salutary speed in 2021 to reunify their divided country. With UN help, the new government should hasten to clear two last hurdles: establishing a legal framework for elections and clarity about who holds supreme command of the armed forces. Read More
Mohamed Eljarh
Despite a political process that appears on track, the risk of conflict from foreign forces still in the country remains high. Read More
Abdullah Al-Kabir
The spokesman for the Government of National Unity (GNU) announced the postponement of the date of the meeting of the GNU, headed by Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah , scheduled for last Monday in Benghazi, without mentioning the reasons for the postponement. Read More
Libyan politicians have moved with salutary speed in 2021 to reunify their divided country. With UN help, the new government should hasten to clear two last hurdles: establishing a legal framework for elections and clarity about who holds supreme command of the armed forces. Read More
It’s time for the international community to step up.
Alia Brahimi
A couple of weeks after a state institution in Tripoli was stormed by gunmen and a suicide bomber in 2018, I was sitting in a Tunis café with a friend who had been working in the building on the day of the terrorist attack. Read More
Alex Thurston
The militarism of US foreign policy makes analyzing and understanding conflict an imperative part of any reform effort. But bad analysis is rampant. Here are some ways to recognize it.
By Mohamed Shaaban
In early 1904, the President of the World Zionist Organization, Theodore Herzl, presented a proposal to the Italian King Victor Emanuel III to divert the Jewish migration from Eastern Europe to Tripoli in Libya, so Jews can settle there and have an autonomous region under Italian laws and institutions. Read More
The dual military and economic nature of the group’s activities make it more beholden to the Kremlin. Read More
Sasa Dragojlo
A UN probe into the conflict in Libya led investigators to a small airstrip south of Belgrade, where an ‘agricultural’ plane – modified to carry rockets and traced to US security contractor Erik Prince – was serviced in 2018. Read More
Saul Elbein
Many desert cities, including Tripoli, Phoenix and Los Angeles, are sustained by water brought from other basins by hydro megaprojects that are aging and susceptible to collapse, while the desalination plants that water Persian Gulf cities come at a high economic cost with serious salt pollution. Read More
Alex Thurston
The militarism of US foreign policy makes analyzing and understanding conflict an imperative part of any reform effort. But bad analysis is rampant. Here are some ways to recognize it. Read More
Dilara Aslan
Libyan soldiers conduct a graduation ceremony in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, following the completion of training by the Turkish Armed Forces, Nov. 22, 2020. Read More
The promotion of Richard Norland to be the Biden administration’s special envoy for Libya may seem relatively insignificant when Israel is exploding and the Palestinians are dying and the administration is focusing most of its Middle East bandwidth on Iran and Yemen. Read More
George Mikhail
Although a new unity government was formed in Libya, ending years of division in state institutions, conflicts still plague some financial institutions that control the country’s economy, namely the central bank. Read More
Ivan Bocharov
More than ten years ago, in February 2011, the Arab Spring began in Libya. The armed uprising quickly escalated into an armed conflict that had Gaddafi overthrown. Since then, the civil war has not stopped in the country. Read More
Nael Shama
The paper draws on evidence from the six cases of the 2011 Arab Spring— Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia—to illustrate the dynamics of troop loyalty or defection.
Edith Lederer
The U.N. Security Council held an informal meeting Thursday focusing on the repatriation of more than 20,000 foreign fighters and mercenaries from Libya, a demand of the country’s transitional government as it heads toward December elections after a decade of fighting and upheaval. Read More
Gerald Jansen
The creation of Libya’s interim government has instilled the international community with tacit hopes of a decade-long conflict finally coming to an end. Read More
