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Wolfram Lacher. Bloomsbury. 2020. Find this book (affiliate link):  While it is nearly a decade-old conflict, the dynamics of civil war in Libya require comprehensive understanding by scholars and policymakers seeking to address the situation. Wolfram Lacher’s book, Libya’s Fragmentation: Structure and Process in Violent Conflict, explains how the predicament in Libya has gradually emerged after the toppling of Qadhafi’s regime in the 2011 revolution. Presenting a very detailed backgrou...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's new Government of National Accord will comprise 27 ministers, evenly picked from the country's three historical geographical regions of Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Fezzan, the government Inf

Saturday, 6 March, 2021 - 11:30 A general view shows a sign reading in Arabic: “Sirte”. (Photo: Mahmud Turkia, AFP) London- Kamil Al-Tawil The city of Sirte, located 450 km east of Tripoli, is preparing to host a meeting of Libyan representatives early next week, to give confidence to the government of Abdul Hamid Al-Dabaib. While the confidence vote does not seem guaranteed in light of the great divisions among MPs, the mere ...

Why the Old F-14 Tomcat Is a Legend (Not Just Because of Top Gun) Recent conflicts in the Middle East show that even after nearly 50 years the Tomcat still has sharp claws. During its three decades in service with the United States Navy the Grumman F-14 Tomcat more than lived up to the role, it was designed for, drawing blood in combat and even getting its moment in the spotlight in the film Top Gun. Designed to incorporate the air combat experience learned during the Vietnam War, the F-14 was...

BBC Science Focus Magazine Bellingcat, the intelligence organisation, has broken some of the biggest stories of the decade. Their investigators proved that Bashar al-Assad fired chemical weapons at his own people, they discovered who downed flight MH17 and, most recently, they put Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on the phone with one of the men sent to assassinate him. Advertisement They’re not spies, and they’re not trained, so how do these laptop-wielding ‘amateursâ€...

Libyas parliament speaker confirms need to hold general elections on time March 5, 2021 at 11:25 am | Published in: Africa, Europe & Russia, Germany, Libya, News Aguila Saleh Issa (L), speaker of the Tobruk-based Libyan House of Representatives, chairs a session with other representatives in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on 7 December 2020. [ABDULLAH DOMA/AFP via Getty Images] March 5, 2021 at 11:25 am Speaker of the Libyan Parliament Aguila Saleh assured the German ambassador that t...

× People shop from a stall selling Ramadan lanterns along a main street in the in the northern suburb of Shubra (home to a large Christian population) of Egypts capital Cairo on April 12, 2021, at the start of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. AFP 1/4 A general view shows the Umayyad Mosque in the Old city of Damascus, Syria, on 12 April 2021. EPA 2/4 A man checks a traditional lantern known in Arabic as "Fanous Ramadan " at the start of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in the...

Libya: Sebha Area-Based Assessment (ABA), March 2021 Format Key findings Provision of electricity, health and water services is noticeably weak across Sebha, with distinct disparities in access and quality between urban and peri-urban areas, and between population groups. • In response to a lack of formal infrastructure, residents have constructed ‘informal’ infrastructures such as compartmentalized private water networks or private connections to the electrical grid. While the developmen...

Italy and Nazi Germany fought against the British in a very long desert campaign. Key point: North Africa might be desert, but is open, flat tank country. Here is how the Axis and Allies duked it out with some of their best tanks and leaders. The North African campaign has been aptly described as a “tactician’s paradise and quartermaster’s hell.” The contested area was large, stretching some 1,400 miles from Tripoli in the west to Alexandria in the east, a vast expanse of waterless des...

Libya's General National Maritime Transport Company (GNMTC) announced last month the purchase of two newly minted oil tankers for the modernization of the