Libya

FINANCEBY EMRAH KEKILLI The approval of Salamé’s roadmap is crucial for Haftar, as it will give start to a political process that will thwart Haftar's strategy of “militarizing the state.” Similarly, it creates political risks for regional actors that have supported Haftar up until now.  Ghassan Salamé, the United Nations Special Representative in Libya, prepared and submitted a new roadmap to the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) and the High Council of the State (HCS) to be put in action by December 2017. This roadmap, foreseeing amendments to the Libya Political Agreement (LPA), which was signed in Morocco in 2015, was approved by the House of Representatives based in Tobruk. Why did the House of Representatives approve the UN’s roadmap? By ap...

Ten years ago, near the remote Libyan desert town of Awbari, a band of armed rebels ambushed a small convoy that was fleeing south toward Niger. The gunmen stopped the cars and found a youngish bald man with bandages covering his right hand. They saw a face that had been ubiquitous on Libyan state television: Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the second son of the country’s notorious dictator and one of the rebels’ chief targets. Until the Libyan uprising began, in February 2011, Seif was widely seen in the West as the country’s best hope for incremental reform. With his clean-cut good looks, rimless glasses and impeccable English, he seemed utterly different from his flamboyant, erratic father. Seif had studied at the London School of Economics and spoke the language of democracy...

By Gordon Duff, Abdul Raouf Kara By  Michael R. Bradle for VT: Ten years after the 2011 Libyan War, the peace process has suffered numerous setbacks, and no one can seem to agree on the path forward. Even with current discussions and planning, the legitimacy of any elections in December are still under debate and nothing solidified. The entire rehabilitation of civil society in Libya has also been heavily impacted by the acts of one man who holds power over the prison system within Tripoli. Mr. Abdul Raouf Kara is the head of the Special Deterrence Force, one of the many armed brigades that continues to occupy Tripoli and holding the civil society hostage. Mr. Kara is no stranger to Libyan problems, his brigade under his direct control committed numerous atrocitie...

Nine years after the military intervention, led by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to overthrow Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libya remains trapped in a spiral of violence involving armed groups, sectarian, ethnic groups and external interference that have led the country into absolute chaos. RELATED: No Ceasefire in Libya As Rival Factions Leave Moscow Without Deal On Oct. 20, 2011, amid protests supported by the governments of the United States and the European Union, an armed uprising that plunged the country into a civil war, the Libyan leader was captured and brutally murdered by the rebels. Being one of the most prosperous countries in the African continent, thanks to its vast oil fields, after the fall of Gaddafi, the North African country was div...

By VT Editor By Jonathan Azaziah, Staff Writer“… When the Zionist entity’s tactics of subversion via a decade worth of false flag terrorism and sanctions didn’t achieve the goal of crippling Qaddafi, it switched its tactics to all out aggression against Libya…” www.maskofzion.com It’s happening all over again. Do you hear them? You must be able to. The deaf, those incapable of hearing the sounds of serenity and calamity since birth, could hear them due to their almost wretched loudness. What? What you ask? The drums of war of course. And the drummers are composing their iniquitous cacophony from the same locations that they always do. Tel Aviv. Washington D.C. London, the City of London to be most precise. The audience for their bloodthirsty melody this time around? Libya. Th...