Sebastian Gorka has always been on top of the list among the controversial advisers that Trump brought with him in the White House because of his past as a Hungarian politician with anti-Semitic sympathies and his idea that Islam itself is the root cause of terrorism. Partition is sometimes presented as the only …
Libya’s southern desert, long neglected by central authorities, risks becoming an arena for score-settling between rival governments vying for clout across the war-torn country, analysts say. Clashes erupted last week as forces loyal to Libya’s eastern authorities battled to seize a key southern airbase from militias that back a United …
For the first time since the Presidency Council (PC) moved to Tripoli, Omar Al-Aswad, joined in its deliberations today. He had boycotted its sessions for much of the year over the composition of the two previous proposed governments.
The Council of the European Union on Thursday extended the mandate of the planning mission EUBAM Libya until 21 August 2017. It also approved its budget of €17 million for the period from 22 August 2016 to 21 August 2017.
There are reported to have been four further US airstrikes on IS positions in Sirte today though the Bunyan Marsous media office has not confirmed the raids The attacks once again apparently targeted sniper positions.
As IS-held territory in Libya shrinks, the US and EU will be tempted to abandon diplomatic engagement – but they shouldn’t This week, the US began launching air strikes in Libya. If war is the continuation of politics by other means, it is important to look not just narrowly at …
Libya’s current dysfunction is more Orwellian than most realize. The so-called unity government, aka the Government of National Accord (GNA), is not actually a union of the country’s main militias. Nor does it geographically represent the country by combining power centers. It draws almost exclusively on Misratan and Tripolitanian powerbrokers.
The European Union is taking steps to beef up its struggling efforts against human smuggling and trafficking from Libya, but until the country is politically stable, the changes aren’t likely to be sufficient. Summary⎙ Print The EU’s Operation Sophia has so far failed to stop the smuggling of people from …
European sources said that some members of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are closely thinking about military intervention to strike terrorism strongholds inside Libya, in the wake of Libyan political factions’ inability to form government approved by the international community, despite the international community’s decision based on the outcomes of …
The Arabic newspaper, Al-Araby Al-Jadid, published a report, and LIBYAPROSPECT is translating here, tackling journalists’ statues inside Libya after the 17th February revolution. It said that after the revolution, a lot of TV stations, radio and newspapers were launched in Libya, so freedom space increased after decades of sole speech. …
