Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood Struggles to Grow – Foreign Policy
TRIPOLI, Libya — As the brass band struck the opening notes of the national anthem, the crowd gathered for Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Justice and Construction Party (JCP) congress rose to...
View ArticleLibya’s Rogue ‘War on terror’– Foreign Policy
TRIPOLI, Libya — The boy was only a teenager when the Libyan revolution erupted. As hundreds of youths began streaming to the front lines, he quit his university studies in pharmacology to join...
View ArticleGeneral Haftar’s anti-Islamist campaign divides Libyans – BBC
Libya has been hit by unrest since the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011. Now the country is divided over a renegade general who has declared war on Islamist militias he blames for...
View ArticleA conversation with Abu Khattala – The New Yorker
Photograph of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi by Esam Al-Fetori/Reuters. This past weekend, U.S. Special Forces captured Ahmed Abu Khattala, one of the suspected ringleaders of an assault on American...
View ArticleCapture of Benghazi attack suspect conjures mixed feelings in Libyan city –...
A man walks past an election campaign poster in Benghazi this week. Photograph: Esam Omran al-Fetori/Reuters Down a dust-blown street in Benghazi’s run-down Leithi neighbourhood, Ahmed Abu Khattala’s...
View ArticleLibyan renegade general Khalifa Haftar claims he is winning his war – The...
On a heavily guarded base deep in rural eastern Libya, the renegade general who last month launched an offensive against Islamist militias and their suspected political backers plots a war he claims...
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