By Clotilde Asangna
This essay offers a basic framework for analyzing Libyan democratization by looking at the deficit of a modern (post-modern) political transition élite and the potential of civil society.
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Global refugee flows are currently at the highest levels in history. While many refugees already face perilous journeys, harsh living conditions in camps, and discrimination in host countries, they are also at risk of a human rights violation too often insufficiently addressed in security and conflict prevention efforts: human trafficking. Read More
By Feride Cem
With projects worth $28.9 billion, Libya has been the third country where Turkish contractors undertook the most number of projects to date although a majority of them have not been completed due to internal turmoil in the country. Read More
By Metin Gurcan
Following President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s pledges to help the Tripoli-based government in Libya’s civil war, military strategists in Ankara have been pondering the deployment of soldiers to Libya. Read More
By Nabih Bulos
Libya’s civil war has long had an international flavor, with no fewer than 10 countries engaged in proxy battles waged by special forces operatives, mercenaries and millions of dollars of materiel. Read More
By Rhiannon Smith
Civil war endangers the state-owned oil company’s ability to maintain crude production and threatens the collapse of the entire sector. Read More
On 27 November 2019, the Libyan Government of National Unity signed a memorandum of understanding with Turkey on Mediterranean maritime sovereignty. Read More
By Yamena Salemi
After the ouster and death of Gaddafi in 2011, two seats of power emerged in Libya. Read More
By Sally Hayden
The end of a rescue ship’s ninth mission in the area underlines growing danger in Libya. Read More
By Sudarsan Raghavan
Dozens of glum-faced African men sat on the cement floor of the packed migrant detention center, the air thick with body odor. Read More
By Declan Walsh
The Turkish president said his country’s Parliament would soon vote on a deployment, adding to an escalating proxy battle among regional powers. Read More
By Ahmad Al-Qadidi
We received a pleasant and refreshing surprise when we heard President Qais Saeed received the first president from a neighbouring country since taking over office and that this distinguished guest was the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday. Read More
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with The Washington Post’s Cairo bureau chief Sudarsan Raghavan about the foreign countries pouring weapons and mercenaries into Libya’s civil war. Read More
By Viktor Katona
Whenever a major oil-producing region is engulfed in prolonged warfare, speculation starts to abound regarding all the potential changes to its oil and gas policy and the companies willing to take a share in its projects. Read More
By İbrahim Karagül
Libya is playing host to a bitter war that has witnessed the country being carved up. Those responsible for Gaddafi’s ouster are taking the next step and plundering the country. Read More
By Jason Burke & Zeinab M. Salih
Hundreds of fighters from Sudan joining anti-government Libyan National Army. Read More
By Ali Bakeer
On December 19, the UN-recognised government in Libya [GNA] led by Fayez al-Sarraj, issued an official statement citing that the cabinet “unanimously approved the implementation of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on security and military cooperation (SMC) between the GNA and the Turkish government signed on November 27”. Read More
It is threatening a wider war in the Middle East
By Sudarsan Raghavan
When Russian mercenaries linked to the Kremlin emerged on the front lines of Libya’s war in September, their military expertise and advanced weaponry changed the battlefield. That was only the beginning. Read More
By Burhanettin Duran
The fall of Tripoli could undermine European energy security and unleash a new refugee wave on already overwhelmed countries. Read More
By Soner Cagaptay & Ben Fishman
Facing pressure from General Haftar and his foreign military backers, the Tripoli government has welcomed the helping hand extended by Ankara, whose own lack of regional options has drawn it into the middle of another conflict. Read More
By Rachel Frazin
The State Department on Saturday expressed concern about the escalation of a conflict in Libya amid the reported presence of Russian mercenaries.
By Michael Mackenzie
The dust has not yet settled in northern Syria after Turkey launched a military operation there in October, capturing a strip of territory from Kurdish militias that it views as terrorists. Read More
By Tarek Megerisi & Asli Aydıntaşbaş
Europeans could still keep Libya a multilateral affair, if they can bring France onto a shared platform – and deploy newfound unity to draw American influence back in. Read More
By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey
A vicious trend of US apathy is thwarting Libya’s peace process. Read More
The UAE has spared no effort to support any movement that would undermine the effects of the Arab Spring. Read More
From Fasoulia Sandwiches to Fashionable Lattes
For those of you who are familiar with Benghazi’s delicious cuisine, you can move on to the post. Read More
On the cliff edge of a new stage of the Libyan conflict
By Federica Saini Fasanotti
For much of its course, the war in Libya passed through deserts and rural areas, rarely reaching cities. Read More
Tripoli under siege and the real cost of the Libyan war
By Rebecca Murray
As Haftar’s latest assault on the Libya capital enters a new phase, many Libyans have been killed, displaced and left mentally traumatised by a conflict which grinds on with no end in sight. Read More
By Heba Saleh & Laura Pitel
Heightened Turkish presence in Libya would stoke tension between Ankara and rivals such as Egypt. Read More
By Anes Alic
Libya’s General Haftar is closing in on Tripoli, which in turn is prompting a sudden uptick in Turkish activity on behalf of the Tripoli-based government. Read More
By Emadeddin Badi
Russia’s increased involvement in Libya marks a turning point in the conflict, making an Ankara-Kremlin rapprochement all the more likely. Read More
By Kirill Semenov
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the situation in Syria and Libya in a Dec. 11 phone call. Read More
By Amberin Zaman
Turkey is poised to formalize its military support to Libya’s internationally recognized government, that would inclue dispatching a rapid reaction force to the war convulsed North African nation if need be, under the terms of an agreement that will be brought before the Turkish parliament for ratification. Read More
By David A. Wemer (Related Experts: Karim Mezran)
General Khalifa Haftar’s threat to advance his troops further into the capital of Tripoli.
By Wolfram Lacher
In post-revolutionary Libya, the collapse of central authority and the fragmentation of territorial control have produced a fundamental change in the political elite.
By Samer Al-Atrush
Since the 2011 NATO-backed revolt in Libya that ended 42 years of rule by Qaddafi, the oil-rich North African country has been in perpetual turmoil. Read More