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Low-cost armed Turkish drones shaping future warfare

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

Egypt recalibrated its strategy in Libya because of Turkey

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

Libya Turns the Page (6)

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

Can a military parade help Libya’s Haftar stay relevant?

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

Libya Turns the Page (5)

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

Libya Turns the Page (4)

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

Turkey Under Fire Over Military Presence in Libya

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

Libya Turns the Page (3)

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

The Italian Government and the Migration Crisis

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

Libya Turns the Page (2)

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

Why was Dbeibah prevented from visiting Benghazi?

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

Libya Turns the Page (1)

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

Libya has a mercenaries problem

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

Five Ways Not to Analyze War (2)

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.

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Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems: The Libyan Case

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

Five Ways Not to Analyze War (1)

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

Fresh Hope at Long Last for Libyans

By The Editorial Board

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

Rifts plague Libya’s central bank

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

UN focuses on demand to repatriate foreign fighters in Libya

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