By Agathe Duparc, Montse Ferrer & Antoine Harari
In Libya, a country that has been torn apart and bled dry since the fall of Gaddafi, international criminal networks with connections to Europe and Switzerland make big profits through fuel smuggling. Read More
By Taher El-Sonni
Libyans rose up in the Arab Spring of 2011 to fight dictatorship. Their dream was to establish a civil, democratic state. Read More
By Matthew Herbert
The general’s global supporters shouldn’t just focus on whether he can win, but what victory would mean. Read More
By Agathe Duparc, Montse Ferrer & Antoine Harari
In Libya, a country that has been torn apart and bled dry since the fall of Gaddafi, international criminal networks with connections to Europe and Switzerland make big profits through fuel smuggling. Read More
By Wolfram Lacher
The authoritarian states intervening in Libya also lead disinformation campaigns whose scope illustrates dramatically altered international power relations. Read More
By Wolfram Lacher
Western governments have watched the battle over Libya’s capital, Tripoli, with disinterest, even as it has drawn in a growing number of foreign powers. Read More
By Jeffrey Stacey
Libya’s civil war, with legions of foreign powers intervening on both sides, is on the cusp of turning the country into the next Syria. Read More
Civilians Bear the Brunt of Renewed Fighting
By Hanan Salah & Amy Braunschweiger
Extensive fighting in Libya re-ignited last April, when an armed group based in eastern Libya launched an offensive against Tripoli, a city in the west of around 1.2 million. Read More
By Agathe Duparc, Montse Ferrer & Antoine Harari
In Libya, a country that has been torn apart and bled dry since the fall of Gaddafi, international criminal networks with connections to Europe and Switzerland make big profits through fuel smuggling. Read More
Walid Phares has supported Khalifa Haftar
By Dan Friedman
When Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive last spring to oust Libya’s internationally recognized government in Tripoli, he sought US support with a simple pitch. Read More
By Agathe Duparc, Montse Ferrer & Antoine Harari
In Libya, a country that has been torn apart and bled dry since the fall of Gaddafi, international criminal networks with connections to Europe and Switzerland make big profits through fuel smuggling. Read More
To play a useful role, the AU needs to present a more neutral and unified front.
By Shewit Woldemichael & Mohamed Diatta
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says that as African Union (AU) chairperson this year, his peace and security priorities will focus on resolving South Sudan and Libya’s crises. Read More
By Sigvart Nordhov Fredriksen & Zenonas Tziarras
Libya is fractured. Its civil war is a complex conflict fought out between myriad smaller militias loosely integrated into two main factions. Khalifa Haftar’s siege of Tripoli and its UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) has at the time of writing gone on for almost a year. Read More
By Mike Whitney
The unexpected alliance between Turkey and Libya is a geopolitical earthquake that changes the balance of power in the eastern Mediterranean and across the Middle East. Read More
Moderator (M): Today’s briefing will be on background, attribution to a senior department official or State Department official. And he is going to start with remarks and then will take a few of your questions. Read More
By Sigvart Nordhov Fredriksen & Zenonas Tziarras
Libya is fractured. Its civil war is a complex conflict fought out between myriad smaller militias loosely integrated into two main factions. Read More
Flights also suspended after Mitiga airport, the only functioning airport in Tripoli, was attacked. Read More
By Michael Young
A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
By Ted Carpenter
The media is happy to report on the chaos there now; less so on what caused it in the first place. Read More
By Samer Al-Atrush
Libya’s security chief called on the U.S. to set up a base in the North African country to counterbalance Russia’s expanding influence in Africa. Read More
By Frances D’Emilio
A lawyer for the captain of a cargo ship jailed in Italy for allegedly transporting embargoed armaments to Libya contended on Thursday that there are no legal grounds for a case against his client in Italy. Read More
By Andrew England
With two factions fighting over Tripoli, the country is grasping for a solution to a proxy war featuring European powers. Read More
By Francis Ghilès & Akram Kharief
The power games being played in Libya complicate any possible solution to the crisis. Read More
By Samuel Ramani
Saudi Arabia is stepping up its support for Libyan National Army chieftain Khalifa Hifter and its role as a potential power broker in a political settlement in Libya. Read More
By Peter Schwarz
The foreign ministers of all 27 EU countries agreed to launch a new military mission in Libya on Monday. In order to enforce the arms embargo agreed in Berlin in January, the EU intends to deploy warships and planes in the region together with satellites. Read More
By Karim Mezran & Dario Cristiani
There could be a political solution to the Libyan crisis but only after a military solution on the ground has been achieved. Read More
By Hussein Eddeb
In neighbourhoods such as al-Hadba al-Badri, the numbers of displaced are swelling despite the shells whistling overhead. Read More
By Irfan Kaya Ulger
EU’s new mission over Libya’s UN arms embargo aims to eliminate Turkey’s influence on Mediterranean. Read More
Sudan is investigating claims that the controversial actions of UAE security firm Black Shield are part of a wider clandestine policy of the Gulf state to turn unwitting Sudanese workers into mercenaries to fight in theaters such as Libya and Yemen. Read More
By Tarek Megerisi
Without aerial power, the ‘new Operation Sophia’ will simply upset Turkey and encourage the UAE and Haftar to go for total victory in Tripoli. Read More
By Javier Solana
The credibility of all external actors in the Libyan conflict is now at stake. The main domestic players will lower their maximalist pretensions only when their foreign supporters do the same, ending hypocrisy once and for all and making a sincere effort to find room for consensus. Read More
By Stasa Salacanin
Thousands of foreign mercenaries — “private military contractors” — are flocking to Libya, adding fuel to the fire of the civil war while further complicating the efforts to resolve the bloody conflict. Read More
“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.” – Gustavo Pedro Read More
By David D. Kirkpatrick
Khalifa Hifter, the military ruler of eastern Libya, is trying to take over the entire country. To see what that would look like, we paid a rare visit to the part he already controls. Read More
By Saltanat Berdikeeva
A recent revelation about a UAE-based security firm involved in deceiving thousands of young Sudanese men into protecting UAE’s oil interests and fighting its wars in Libya and Yemen drew angry protests in Sudan. Read More
By Julian E. Barnes
Khalifa Hifter’s Virginia properties could make him vulnerable to a new lawsuit filed under a 1991 anti-torture law. Read More