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Libya has long been a battleground pitting several regional powers against one another. That competition for influence and control of energy resources, is about to get even more intense. While warlord Haftar has been receiving virtually unlimited support from the...

Tripoli, Dec 27, 2019 (By Nawas Al-Darraji) - Layla Mohammed barely had time to gather her children's belongings before fleeing their southern Tripoli home when shelling targeted the Libyan capital's outskirts earlier this year. For months she moved her family between...

On Wednesday 13 November, Major-General Abderrazak Cherif was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Blida military court for "illicit enrichment, trading in influence and breach of army instructions." This verdict shocked many observers and analysts knowledgeable on...

Europe has been silent about the political crisis unfolding in Algeria over the past nine months. In the eyes of the Algerian opposition and the public in general, such silence is sign of complicity with a military regime that has been committing human rights abuses....