The Libyan government still owes Britain more than £14 million for an aborted military training programme that had to be cancelled when militiamen ran riot in Cambridgeshire.
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Tackling Human Security Challenges in North-Western Tunisia
This report summarizes the outcomes of a conference on security challenges in Northwestern Tunisia, which was held in April 2014 in Tabarka in the Jendouba governorate. The publication focuses on the following four main topics: Political security and the decentralization that followed the revolution in Tunisia; Economic security and development …
UN declare Ansar al-Sharia terrorists as fighting rages across Libya
The UN Security Council designated two branches of Ansar al-Sharia as terrorists with fighting raging in both east and west Libya
Benghazi truce fails as fighting rages across the city Read more
Clashes have continued across Benghazi despite a twelve-hour humanitarian ceasefire brokered by the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
Number of internally displaced in Libya nears 400,000
The number of Libyans displaced by ongoing fighting continues to rise and has now reached almost 400,000.
Deadly Ghosts on Libya’s Border
Benghazi, Asharq Al-Awsat—The border between Libya and Egypt has become highly porous and dangerous Asharq Al-Awsathas found, in its first installment in a series on the conflict currently raging between forces loyal to renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar and extremist militias.
HoR says Operation Dignity under National Army
The House of Representatives (HoR) has again confirmed that it has legitimised Khalifa Hafter’s Operation Dignity and that it operates under the Chief of Staff Major-General Abdul Razzaq Nazhuri.
Libya's south on edge of chaos
Libya’s southwest is a beautiful landscape of sand dunes and small oases. However, reality on the ground can be confusing and deadly. The strategic and geopolitical importance of Fezzan, the Roman name given to the region, is seldom highlighted — its importance is directly related to the survival of Libya …
Libya’s south on edge of chaos
Libya’s southwest is a beautiful landscape of sand dunes and small oases. However, reality on the ground can be confusing and deadly. The strategic and geopolitical importance of Fezzan, the Roman name given to the region, is seldom highlighted — its importance is directly related to the survival of Libya …
Fourth beheading, this time of a captured soldier
A fourth man has been beheaded in a savage execution by militants which, as with the Derna murder of three young social activists on Tuesday, was again filmed and posted on social media.