Tag: Libya

It Took U.S. ‘Several Days’ to Figure Out Who Bombed Libya

Whitney Blake · August 27, 2014 7:46 pm

Libya’s UN envoy warns of ‘full-blown civil war’

Cara Anna · August 27, 2014 6:39 pm

In this photo provided by Egypt's state news agency MENA, speaker of the Libyan Parliament Ageila Saleh Eissa, left, meets Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. A delegation of Libyan officials are visiting Egypt amid increasing fears among Libya's neighbors and Western countries that the North African nation is sliding deeper into turmoil, particularly after mysterious airstrikes against Islamist militias prompted allegations that outside powers were trying to swing the fight. (AP Photo/Fady Fares, MENA)

National Security

Arab strikes in Libya show impatience with US

BRADLEY KLAPPERMAGGIE MICHAEL · August 26, 2014 8:39 pm

Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz, right, listens to his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shukri, left, during the opening session of The Fourth Ministerial Meeting for the Neighbouring Countries of Libya, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. Foreign ministers from Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Sudan, Chad, as well as the Arab League Secretary General met Monday in Cairo as Islamist-led militias in the Libyan capital say they consolidated their hold on Tripoli and its international airport, driving out rivals to the city's outskirts after battles that largely destroyed the strategic hub. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

National Security

UN envoy opposes foreign intervention in Libya

MAGGIE MICHAELADAM SCHRECK · August 26, 2014 3:05 pm

In this photo provided by Egypt's state news agency MENA, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, meets with editors of Egyptian newspapers and media in the presidential palace, in Cairo Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. El-Sissi denied Sunday any military involvement in neighboring Libya, a day after Islamist militias accused Cairo of bombing their posts in Tripoli, Egypt's state news agency reported. El-Sissi said Egypt is in consultation with Libya's neighbors to find a political solution to the violent power struggle between rival groups. (AP Photo/MENA)

Troubled Libya now faces dueling governments

Maggie Michael · August 25, 2014 11:02 pm

100 African migrants drown off Libyan coast

Washington Examiner · August 25, 2014 6:35 pm

In this photo provided by Egypt's state news agency MENA, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, meets with editors of Egyptian newspapers and media in the presidential palace, in Cairo Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. El-Sissi denied Sunday any military involvement in neighboring Libya, a day after Islamist militias accused Cairo of bombing their posts in Tripoli, Egypt's state news agency reported. El-Sissi said Egypt is in consultation with Libya's neighbors to find a political solution to the violent power struggle between rival groups. (AP Photo/MENA)

National Security

Libya’s Islamist militias claim control of capital

Mariam Rizk · August 24, 2014 6:06 pm

National Security

Libyan militia accuses Egypt, UAE of airstrikes

Mariam Rizk · August 23, 2014 7:50 pm

President Obama speaks about the situation in Iraq in the State Dining Room at the White House on Thursday. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Beltway Confidential

In Iraq, Obama launches another drive-by war

Timothy P. Carney · August 9, 2014 8:00 pm

Palestinian supporters of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad movement chant slogans against the Israeli military action in Gaza, during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday. (AP/Mohammed Ballas)

How the United Nations prevents peace in the Middle East

Mona Charen · August 8, 2014 2:46 pm

Libya calls for UN-supervised ceasefire

Washington Examiner · August 7, 2014 3:44 pm

Photo issued by Britain's Ministry of Defence, showing HMS Enterprise as it evacuates Britons from Tripoli, Libya, Sunday Aug. 3, 2014. Around 100 Britons have fled from Libya and are on their way to sanctuary in Malta amid increasing violence in the north African state. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) confirmed an evacuation mission involving the Royal Navy survey ship HMS Enterprise had left its mooring near the Libyan capital of Tripoli and was on its way to safety. (AP Photo / MoD, Crown Copyright)

Libyan lawmakers elect judge as new speaker

Omar Almosmari · August 5, 2014 10:12 am