UN Special Envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon is still trying to herd the scattered Libyan cats of all political shades around the table in Morocco. Leon hopes to negotiate a peace treaty of sorts, put an end to the fighting, and establish a unity government that can keep the country …

Clashes have intensified outside Tripoli as Libyan National Army (LNA) forces claim to have taken control of a strategic town, and Libya Dawn prepares to defend the capital from attack. 

More than four years since the start of Libya’s revolution, the country’s two competing governments are entangled in a violent, nationwide power struggle, targeting Libya’s lucrative oil sector, which produces most of the country’s wealth, and other valuable assets, such as airports and borders.

Over recent weeks, the United Nations special representative in Libya, Bernardino Leon, has been patiently trying to bring the country’s feuding politicians together.

Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah Thinni has a different analysis of the Libyan situation to that of the international community.

The National Security Committee of the House of Representatives (HoR) is to decide next week on a new head of Libyan intelligence.

ECFR Policy Fellow, Mattia Toaldo, speaks to journalist and analyst Mary Fitzgerald, and Libyan politician Guma El-Gamaty about the lessons that have been learned in 2011 and whether international intervention in Libya would be a good idea.

The reasons for the weakness of the performance of the Libyan government are clear and everybody knows that I did not choose my ministers, admitted Prime Minister Abdullah Thinni.

The United Nations Support Mission to Libya (UNSMIL) issued its first draft agreement on the political transition in Libya that was given to the parties to the political dialogue, taking place in different cities inside and outside of Libya since September 2014. The last round of political talks took place …

Libyan legislators are in the US this week to warn that women and children caught in the fighting have been left even more vulnerable because  international organisations, including the United Nations have pulled out of the country.