Last month, when General National Congress President Mohamed Magarief announced that Libya had granted Tunisia a “development aid package” worth 200 million Tunisian dinars to be used to cover Tunisia’s deficit, I was struck by the wide gap between the positions of my Libyan friends on this issue. Some of …

Libya’s Col Muammar Gaddafi is dead, but his shadow and the decades of his iron rule have not quite departed to the other side.

The checkpoint outside Misrata on the Tripoli road is more like an international border than the boundary of a city.

Countries transitioning to democracy must change old models of organizing the police, armed services, and intelligence services, which typically were characterized by mistreatment of the public, for models that stress transparency, accountability, and citizen involvement. Yet each new government in the Middle East and North Africa must tailor its reforms …

The final battle for Muammar Gaddafi’s home-town last October was brutal and drawn-out.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS As the recent upsurge of violence dramatically illustrates, the militias that were decisive in ousting Qadhafi’s regime are becoming a significant problem now that it is gone. Their number is a mystery: 100 according to some; three times that others say.

As the coalition military operation in Libya continues, the United States seems to be inching closer to taking a smaller role in the effort. The Post’s Scott Wilson and Karen DeYoung reported that the U.S. is close to “turning over command of the military operation in Libya, with key NATO …