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Workers cleaning the ground after a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint outside Misurata, Libya, on Sunday that killed at least four people. ISIS claimed responsibility, Reuters

Sinai Peninsula Extremists Clash in Libyan Outskirts

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | May 9, 2016 | Uncategorized

Tripoli- Scores of leaders and recruits of extremist militias, belonging to Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, have fled the Sinai Peninsula – located east of Egypt- crossing the border and entering Libya. Over the last three months, terrorists had looked for sanctuary from the...

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Delegate of the Libyan Presidential Council Mohammed al-Taher Siyala

Mohammed Siyala: Taking Control over Libya is a Matter of Time

by Kamal Ben Younes | May 7, 2016 | Middle East

Tunisia- Libyan Presidential Council’s delegate Mohamed al-Taher Siyala told Asharq Al-Awsat Newspaper that the political and military escalation witnessed in some Libyan cities and sides, including Sirte and some other areas east of Libya, will not reduce the...

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Opinion: Special Envoys and Crises

by Ali Ibrahim | May 3, 2016 | Opinion

The sight of special envoys flocking to the region to resolve its crises is not a reason for optimism. Their presence in itself is an indication that local parties are unable to solve their own problems and have resorted to the international community for help and...

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Philip Hammond and Fayez al-Sarraj, prime minister of Libya’s UN-backed unity government. /AFP/Getty Images

Britain Cannot Rule out Sending Troops to Libya

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 24, 2016 | Middle East

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday that British soldiers could be sent to fight ISIS terrorists in Libya, asserting that this option could not be ruled out, especially if requested by the Libyan government, but that any deployment would need to be...

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McGurk, the United States’ new envoy to the coalition it leads against ISIS, speaks to reporters during a news conference at the U.S. embassy in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Reuters

U.S. Envoy: ISIS Move To Libya Facilitates Taking it Down

by Najlaa Habriri | Apr 23, 2016 | Middle East

London- Brett McGurk, U.S. State Department official coordinating the effort against ISIS, said that ISIS organization’s leaderships leaving Iraq and Syria for Libya- crossing many borders through their trip- makes will it easier to monitor and take them down. In an...