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Reporters watch a live feed of Libyan members of parliament meeting to decide on the new prime minister at the parliament in Tripoli May 4, 2014. (Reuters/Ismail Zitouny)
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Members of a heavily armed militia group hold their weapons in Freedom Square in Benghazi on February 18, 2014. (Reuters/Esam Omran Al-Fetori)
Opinion: Libya is ripe for international intervention
When crises proliferate and compete in one geographic location, it is only natural that some will gain priority over others. This explains the current puzzling absence of the international and regional powers from the snowballing Libyan crisis, which is deteriorating...Caption:
A view of pipelines and a loading berth of Hariga oil port in the city of Tobruk, approximately 932 miles (1,500 km) east of Tripoli August 20, 2013. (Reuters/Ismail Zitouny)
Libya restarts oil exports from Hariga port
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Libya is restarting the process of exporting oil after an eight-month standoff with rebels who blockaded a number of the country’s most prominent ports ended last week following negotiations between the rebels and the Tripoli government. A...Caption:
The oil tanker the Morning Glory during the unloading of oil in the Libyan sea port of Zawiya on April 4, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD TURKIA)
Rebels at the Porthole
Three years ago, the term “rebel,” when used by the Western media in reference to Libya, conjured up images of unlikely young fighters who took up arms for the first time against an unjust regime, guided by a hatred of tyranny, a desire for personal freedoms, and the...Caption:
A North Korean-flagged tanker, the Morning Glory, is seen docked at the Es Sider export terminal in Ras Lanuf in this March 8, 2014 file photo. What began late in 2013 as a routine new assignment for Pakistani sea captain Mirza Noman Baig ended in a dramatic night-time rescue as U.S. special forces seized the ship his family said he was forced to operate by Libyan rebels. Picture taken March 8, 2014. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Files