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Daily Times May 13, 2021 A new unity government in Libya had raised hopes the war-ravaged North African nation had turned a corner towards peace — but analysts warn that major stumbling blocks remain. Thousands of foreign mercenaries are still on the ground, political factions remain deeply divided, and the promise of elections in December seems to be slipping away. “The honeymoon period of Libya’s GNU (Government of National Unity) is now long gone,” said analyst Emadeddin Badi. The toppling and killing of dictator Moamer Kadhafi in a 2011 NATO-backed uprising plunged Libya into a bl...

Libya's Latest Unity Government Faces Uphill Battle By Hamza Mekouar 05/11/21 AT 11:29 PM A new unity government in Libya had raised hopes the war-ravaged North African nation had turned a corner towards peace -- but analysts warn that major stumbling blocks remain. Thousands of foreign mercenaries are still on the ground, political factions remain deeply divided, and the promise of elections in December seems to be slipping away. "The honeymoon period of Libya's GNU (Government of National Unity) is now long gone," said analyst Emadeddin Badi. The toppling and killing of dictator Moamer ...

By Colin Barnard  In a recent article for CIMSEC, I proposed three ways to improve U.S. maritime posture in Europe, including the forward basing of small surface combatants in the Baltic and Barents Seas. Due to the Montreux Convention, however, only littoral states are able to base warships in the Black Sea, which excludes the United States and all but three NATO members: Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey. Recognizing this limitation and others on overall NATO maritime posture in the region, Russia has invested heavily in expanding and modernizing its Black Sea Fleet to maintain a position of r...

Out of a sudden, the vitriolic rhetoric against Israel and Egypt by Turkey’s senior officials and advisors has recently been replaced by conciliatory overtures. But what impelled President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to offer an olive branch to the two nations that he decried as outright enemies? In a nutshell, the withering number of Turkey’s friends on the regional and world stage. Owing to Turkey’s constant interventions in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (from the Libyan Civil War to the Qatari Crisis), the affected countries decided to coalesce in an effort to counter this a...

Tara Kavaler 04/27/2021 Eastern Libya is trying civilians in military court, and Western Libya is no bastion of justice, either Amnesty International has called on Libya’s new national unity government to halt and conduct a probe into the show trials of dissidents in Eastern Libya. Since 2018, at least 22 people have been handed death sentences and hundreds have been incarcerated, with many suffering from torture as they await trial. Those who receive trials are routinely denied legal representation and in some cases are even unaware of what crime they have been accused of. “The use of ...