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File photo of Libya Shield commander Wissam Bin Hamid Bin Hamid. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Libya’s Wissam Bin Hamid: From Mechanic to Warlord

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Aug 6, 2014 | Features

Msaed (eastern Libya), Asharq Al-Awsat—No one could imagine how a simple car mechanic, working at a garage in the eastern city of Benghazi, could in just a few short years find himself in command of thousands of armed fighters. Wissam Bin Hamid, leader of the Muslim...

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A burned car sits among rubble after fighting between Libyan special forces and ex-rebel fighters of the Benghazi Shura Council in the eastern city of Benghazi on July 30, 2014. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Who is Winning in Libya?

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Aug 2, 2014 | Features

Musaid, Libya, Asharq Al-Awsat—As conditions in Libya worsen, the conflicts that have destabilized the country have turned into a standoff between the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood, elements associated with Al-Qaeda, and the renegade army officer Gen. Khalifa Haftar....

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A picture made available on July 20, 2014 shows an Egyptian soldier guarding the site of an attack on a checkpoint which left 21 soldiers dead, 600 km south-west of Cairo towards the Libyan border. (EPA)

“Unprecedented” amounts of arms being smuggled into Egypt from Libya: source

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Jul 24, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Unprecedented amounts of weapons and ammunition are being smuggled into Egypt from Libya, a senior Egyptian military official said just days after suspected smugglers killed 21 Egyptian military border guards on the Egyptian–Libyan border. The...

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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz. (Saudi Press Agency)

Saudi King receives honorary doctorate from Al-Azhar University

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Jul 17, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, one of the world’s foremost Sunni Islamic academic institutions, has granted the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, an honorary doctorate in appreciation of his support for...

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A member of the Zintan city forces sits in a vehicle at Tripoli International Airport on July 14, 2014. (REUTERS/Hani Amara)

Libyan jihadists in Syria and Iraq returning home to fight Haftar: security sources

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Jul 16, 2014 | Middle East

Benghazi, Asharq Al-Awsat— Libyan jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq are returning home to fight the breakaway militia led by Khalifa Haftar, who has recently emerged as a serious threat to the country’s Islamists, security and military sources told Asharq Al-Awsat....