Category: Libya
Libya, Syria and Yemen

It is impossible for the UN to move an agenda if two important Western states who drove the NATO war against Libya in 2011 end up backing both sides; in fact, it is wrong to say that they back both sides, because by blocking condemnation of Haftar’s war, they back Haftar
Having Turkish boots on the ground in Libya is likely to intensify the proxy war in the country

Coastal city is renegade general’s last major target in east of country, where water, food, medicine and electricity are already running out

Libya is ruled by a patchwork of rival heavily armed gangs that have sown terror in the population

The Obama Doctrine is Ravaging the Middle East

The limits of the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine

Almost guaranteed to spread more misery across North Africa

Militias have had a free run of the country and the entry of the I.S. has only led to a worsening of the violence, arson and mayhem that have been the order of the day
The Paris attacks make further escalations harder to resist, if not politically inevitable and politically all but impossible to oppose. But opposition must arise from somewhere if we are ever to break out of this spiral of violence that has led only downward for more than a decade.