Category: Libya
Jesse Franzblau: Libya: A Cautionary Tale
Ramzy Baroud: Haftar Leads A Coup
Seumas Milne: The fruit of Nato’s war in Libya
Nick Turse: Washington Fights Fire With Fire in Libya
Owen Jones: Libya Is A Disaster We Helped Create
Patrick Cockburn: Libya is Imploding Into Chaos And Violence
Joel Gillin: Libyan Suffering, Western Ignorance
Robert Fisk: Is The Hague Making A Mockery Of Justice So The CIA And MI6 Can Save Face?
Richard Falk: Post-Intervention Libya: A Militia State
Vijay Prashad: Snatch and Render from Libya
Beset by infighting among militias and rampant arms trafficking, Libya in 2014 is a cautionary tale about the long-term consequences of military intervention
A General’s Odd War on the Muslim Brotherhood
The dire consequences of the west’s intervention are being felt today in Tripoli and across Africa, from Mali to Nigeria
How not to end violence in a war-torn land
Today’s Libya is overrun by militias and faces a deteriorating human rights situation
World View: Its government has no real power; militias are ever more entrenched, and now the state itself is under threat
The chaos, lawlessness, and human rights abuses by the U.S./NATO after Gaddafi’s death
There’s a spot of skulduggery going on in the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague. Not to put too fine a point upon it, a lot of questions are being asked about why the worshipful judges have, at least publicly, demanded a trial in Europe for Saif el-Islam al-Gaddafi – son of the late Read more…
Two apparently related and revealing incidents have turned public attention briefly back to Libya just after the second anniversary of the NATO intervention that helped anti-Qaddafi rebel forces overthrow his regime. The first incident involved the infringement of Libyan sovereignty by an American special forces operation that seized the alleged al Qaeda operative, Abu Anas Read more…
In 2004, the British government brokered the transfer of militants of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) from their “undisclosed locations” in the War on Terror to the Qaddafi regime. “This was the least we could do for you and for Libya to demonstrate the remarkable relationship we have built over the years,” wrote Sir Read more…