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In this file photo, a police officer stands near the wreckage of the 747 Pan Am airliner that exploded and crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988. (AFP Photo/Roy Letkey)

Opinion: A Return to the Lockerbie Bombing

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Oct 19, 2015 | Opinion

“Twenty-six years have passed . . . It is a very long time. Many people died and stories were forgotten . . . ” This is also the view of the parents of the victims who died on the Pan Am plane that exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. This crime represents an...

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The Cortinthia Hotel is seen under attack in Tripoli, Libya, on January 27, 2015. (AP Photo/ @AliTweel via AP video)

Turkey introduces visa requirements for Libyans: Libyan officials

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 26, 2015 | Middle East

Tripoli, Reuters—Turkey is introducing visa requirements for Libyans, Libyan officials said on Tuesday, pushing the North African country deeper into isolation. Turkey had been one of the few countries which Libyans could visit without a visa and became a major...

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014 file photo, Libyan military soldiers fire their weapons during clashes with Islamic militias in Benghazi. (AP Photo/Mohammed El-Sheikhy, File)

Opinion: Libya must not be left to ISIS

by Osman Mirghani | Jun 11, 2015 | Opinion

Can anyone claim that they have been taken aback by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) recent attempts to expand within Libya, or by Arab impotence towards stopping the constant collapse of the North African country? Unfortunately, the answer to this...

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Left to right: Late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi (R) walks with his cousin Ahmed Gaddaf Al-Dam, Gaddaf Al-Dam, Muammar Gaddafi (C) walks with former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat (R) in Cairo, Egypt, in the early 1970s. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Gaddaf Al-Dam: West preparing for new military intervention in Libya

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | May 22, 2015 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ahmed Gaddaf Al-Dam, cousin and former confidant of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has warned that the West is “beating the drums of war” and preparing for another military intervention in the North African state. The former Libyan...

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UN special envoy Bernardino Leon holds a press conference ahead of a new round of Libya peace talks on April 15, 2015, in Skirate, Morocco. (AFP Photo/Fadel Senna)

Airstrikes near Tripoli as UN peace talks on Libya resume

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 16, 2015 | Middle East

Tripoli and Rabat, Reuters—Forces loyal to Libya’s internationally recognized government carried out airstrikes on Wednesday near the capital Tripoli, which is controlled by its rivals, officials said, as United Nations-brokered peace talks resumed in Morocco....