Vol 60 No 25 | LIBYA Another day of reckoning 19th December 2019 For a few hours on 12 December and then the following day, there was panic and eager expectation across Libya as the civil war between the internationally-recognised Government of ...
Vol 60 No 24 | LIBYA Trump talks peace 5th December 2019 The US is trying to force a ceasefire in order to stem Russia’s growing influence as Haftar claims to be poised to take Tripoli The attempt by eastern-based General Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army to seize Tripoli is now into its ninth month but is still unaccomplished. In October, however, afte...
Vol 60 No 20 | LIBYA Washington’s man wades in 11th October 2019 The military stalemate has persuaded US officials to join pressure for negotiations to reunify the country There is a new drive in Washington's Libya policy. As the military stalemate continues, the new United States ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, who took up the post on 14 Augus...
Vol 60 No 19 | LIBYA Emirati casualties 27th September 2019 The United Arab Emirates Armed Forces' announcement that six of its soldiers died in action in Libya is its first admission that it is fighting on the ground there. Up to now it ha...
Vol 60 No 16 | LIBYA Proxies battle over Tripoli 9th August 2019 There's a stalemate on the ground while each side's foreign supporters use high-tech weaponry to try to change the strategic balance As the campaign of Benghazi-based strongman Khalifa Haftar to take Tripoli slows down, foreign powers are putting more and more resources into the fight, including armed drones and... READ FOR FREE
Vol 60 No 14 | LIBYA Air strikes risk escalation 5th July 2019 Bombings in support of Haftar's army not only killed detained African would-be migrants but increased the prospects of ever-greater foreign involvement When Libya's eastern military strongman, General Khalifa Haftar, launched his offensive to capture Tripoli on 4 April, he hoped for a blitzkrieg. What he got was a battle of attrit...
Vol 60 No 8 | LIBYA Haftar stakes it all 19th April 2019 LNA forces have attacked Tripoli, sounding the death knell to planned peace talks and opening what could be a bitter and bloody battle Four years of efforts by the UN to end the crisis in Libya have been rendered almost futile by eastern-based strongman, General Khalifa Haftar. On 4 April, two months after his for...
Vol 60 No 5 | LIBYA Haftar puts south in the game 8th March 2019 The Serraj camp claims all the legitimacy but General Haftar's forces now control the south – and have all the clout The Sharara oilfield is appropriately named: the Arabic word means 'spark'. It was the catalyst for a dramatic change in the strategic balance between General Khalifa Haftar's Liby...
Vol 59 No 23 | LIBYA Posturing in Palermo 23rd November 2018 The latest effort to solve Libya’s crisis produces grandstanding but little progress as European powers compete for influence The Palermo conference on Libya on 12-13 November called by Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was as much about Italy's primacy in the north African conflict as about the meeti...
Vol 59 No 7 | LIBYA Doubts about unity deal 6th April 2018 Elections are planned to fill the power vacuum, but they will have to overcome the poisonous faction-fighting General Khalifa Haftar's forces control the east, but have not marched on Tripoli and show little sign of doing so. Government of National Accord (GNA) Prime Minister and Presidenc...
