By Ethan Chorin and Monem Alyaser
Just as oil and gas wealth were the pillars of Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s brutal rentier state, they are at the heart of the civil conflict raging in Libya – demonstrated recently by an escalating battle over storage depots and lifting ports in the country’s oil-rich East, and rumors of an imminent siege of Libya’s former capital city of Tripoli, which threatens full-blown civil war. Read More
By Ahmed Ben Mussa
In the wake of recent developments, Libya’s National Oil Corporation now has full control over all its oilfields and export terminals. Read More
By Rana Jawad
Libya is a mess. That is not news to most, but Libyan lives were supposed to have improved by now. Saturday marks exactly a year since the signing of the political agreement brokered by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. Read More
By Jason Pack
Libya’s GNA-backed Misrata fighters disposed of IS in Sirte, staking its claim as a politically dominant force in the fractured country. Read More
By Hakim Gherieb
In the war on terrorism, intelligence gathering is integral for any and all counter-terrorism policies and/or operations. The effectiveness of this apparatus, however, is based largely on the sustained coordination of military, police, and judicial sectors of law-enforcement. Read More
By Federica Saini Fasanotti
When U.S. Special Envoy for Libya Ambassador Jonathan Winer testified recently before two sub-committees in the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the situation in Libya, he drew a positive and hopeful picture. Read More
By Eric Schmitt
The Islamic State, though driven from its coastal stronghold in Surt this week, still has several hundred fighters who have dispersed across Libya and pose a threat to the country, its neighbors and, potentially, Europe, according to American officials and the Pentagon’s Africa Command. Read More
Policy Analysis Unit- ACRPS
Libya’s Presidential Guard, a body normally tasked with the protection of sites of presidential power and state guest houses, announced on Tuesday, 18 October that it was splitting off from the State Council answerable to the Fayez Sarraj-led Government of National Accord (GNA). Read More
By Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
December 17th marks the one year anniversary of the Libyan Political Agreement, making this an opportune time to review the administration’s policy on Libya. Read More
By Ken Hanly
A proposal by Ali Al-Gotrani, a member of the Presidential Council (PC) for a transitional phase of the Libyan government with the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Field Marshall, Khalifa Haftar, was reported as reality by the Russian news site Sputnik. Read More
By Houda Mzioudet
Libya′s domestic crisis, which has been rumbling on since the outbreak of civil war in the summer of 2014, has peaked this year. Read More
With the first anniversary of the signing of the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA), on 17th December 2015, approaching in two weeks’ time, Libya Herald, on the margins of the Med 2016 conference in Rome, took the opportunity yesterday to exclusively interview the head of UNSMIL, Martin Kobler, about the LPA. Read More
By Richard J. C. Galustian
Do you suppose the words of Baron Rothschild in the 18th century, crossed subconsciously the mind of The Libyan British Business Council (LBBC) when they decided to hold a conference this coming week in Malta encouraging British industry to start commercial activity in Libya? Read More
By Abdul Sattar Hatita
Cairo- U.N. envoy to Libya Martin Kobler told Asharq Al-Awsat that he was still optimistic on the possibility of Libya regaining stability, unity and peace. For the second time in less than a month, Kobler arrived in Egypt for meetings with various parties on the Libyan crisis. Read More