By François de Labarre
Behind his golden counter, the bartender cleans an old Italian espresso machine while listening to American music. Read More
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The United Arab Emirates regime is currently financing a campaign for Khalifeh Haftar allied militias in Libya, to prevent defections in his forces in the wake of the failure of its campaign to attack the capital Tripoli. Read More
By Ineke Mules
The latest report into the illegal trade of small weapons across the continent highlights the extent of the problem. Read More
By Fritz Schaap & Mirco Keilberth
The civil war in Libya between the militias from the east and fighters from the west is escalating and keeps on drawing in foreign powers. One commander has been fighting for eight years — and sees no end in sight. Read More
By Abdulkader Assad
Khalifa Haftar’s forces have announced “Zero Hour” to launch an all-out offensive on Tripoli and try once again to enter the capital, but the forces have been met with fierce defense by the Libyan Army forces under the command of Presidential Council’s government. Read More
By Ali A. Ali
All possible outcomes of the Sudanese revolution are violent except surrender, or the kind of compromise that kicks the can down the road and postpones resolving the real issues. Read More
By Andreas Krieg
Many of the divisions in the Arab World today are ideological and revolve around narratives — carefully constructed ontological representations of both how the world works and how it is supposed to work conforming to clearly set out interests and values. Read More
Both technical difficulties and defection from Khalifa Haftar’s LNA have been mooted as reasons for the L39 jet’s touchdown on a Tunisian road. Read More
By Salma El Wardany
Libyan oil production dropped to about 1 million barrels a day, its lowest in roughly five months, after an unidentified group reportedly closed a valve and shut down the North African country’s largest field. Read More
Libya has been identified as a priority country for this work given the unstable security situation and the extensive fragmentation in the country in the years since the overthrow of Gaddafi, all of which has been shown to play out in a burgeoning online environment. Read More
By Tim Lister & Nada Bashir
One of Libya’s most prominent female politicians has been abducted from her home in Benghazi by an armed militia, according to her family, and has not been heard from for three days. Read More
By Heather Murdock
“God!” said Ali Fateeh Elfegi as the car in which he was traveling approached billowing metallic-smelling smoke. Read More
By Sudarsan Raghavan
Ten months ago, Salah Badi was the curse of Libya’s capital. Read More
By Abdulaziz Kilani
Last week, the United Arab Emirates confirmed its troop drawdown from Yemen, which has raised questions about what Abu Dhabi’s next target will be. Read More
By: Abdullah Ben Ibrahim
France is claiming it recognizes Tripoli-based Presidential Council as the legitimate government of Libya, but on the other hand, it backs warlord Khalifa Haftar under the table to topple the UN-recognized Presidential Council, a step described by observers as a play of the two-faced game in the North African country. Read More
By Mustafa Fetouri
Between May 2011 and today the United Nations has appointed six special representatives to Libya, from five different nationalities, each serving less than two years. Read More
Since the outbreak of violence in Tripoli last April, the prospect of a negotiated settlement to end the competition for power in Libya has only grown more remote. Read More
By Malachy Browne & Christiaan Triebert
It seemed too outrageous that such a place would be bombed, but if it were true it might be a war crime. It was the middle of the night in Libya. How could we verify the claim? Read More
By Austin Bodetti
Eight years after the death of Libyan dictator, two factions are still fighting for control of Libya. Read More
By Frederic Wehrey
In 1911, over a swathe of small farms south of Tripoli, an Italian aviator named Giulio Gavotti leaned out of his biplane and threw a small bomb onto Turkish soldiers below. Read More
By Edward Hunt
The Kurds and the Misratan militias have seen U.S. support evaporate. Read More
By Carla Bleiker
The warring factions in Libya’s stalemated conflict don’t seem to be interested in a diplomatic solution. Read More
Europe’s ‘business as usual’ approach is making things worse
By Bel Trew
More people are vulnerable to attacks like the one that killed 50 last week, and health ministry officials are getting desperate. Still, even after the UN’s human rights agency begged for action, nothing has changed. Read More
By Sara Firth
‘We are injured.’ – Standing at a podium in Libya’s capital Tripoli one of the speakers from the assembled members of Libyan Civil Society took to the stage and entered into a ten-minute diatribe. Read More
In downtown Benghazi a few weeks ago, the historic Jumhouria Hospital witnessed the demolition of one of its damaged buildings, as part of the municipality’s attempt to begin reconstruction in the war-torn city’s central Al-Sabri district. Read More
By Kirill Semenov
Security forces of Libya’s internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) reportedly arrested two Russian men in Tripoli in May, though the arrests were not announced until early July. Read More
By Giorgio Cafiero
For several reasons, Israel has joined various Arab powers to back a Haftar in Libya. Read More
By Nabih Bulos
The men stand in a maelstrom of money. There’s lots of it: inch-thick wads of crisp Benjamins, 100-euro bills and Turkish liras. Brick-sized blocks of Libyan dinars bulge from suitcases or are spirited away in wheelbarrows. Read More
By Anas El-Gomati
The commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), Khalifa Haftar, has launched a new foreign-backed air campaign to unseat the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli. Read More
By Karim Mezran
A few years ago, I was asked by an international journalist to comment on rumors about the presence of French troops in eastern Libya. Read More
Foreign meddling is fuelling a conflict in which there can be no victor. The thousands of migrants holed up in Libyan detention centres have endured unimaginable trauma. Read More
France says armaments were meant for ‘self-protection’ of counter-terrorism unit in Libya but were ‘unusable’. Read More
By Avijit Goel
Arab lands hate a power vacuum. Most of them still seek fragile peace or a semblance of governance in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, which saw long established power structures being demolished. Read More
By Nona Mikhelidze
Ongoing instability in Libya poses a number of challenges for Italy. Read More
By Yury Barmin
The Kremlin sees its relations with the GNA and Khalifa Haftar as purely transactional. Read More
By Ulf Laessing
Inflation started reducing the value of Libyan assistant professor Seham Saleh’s state-paid earnings. So, she started selling drawings over the internet to help pay bills. Read More