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May 26, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Varsha Koduvayur, Philip Kowalski

Turkish Proxy Gains in Libya are No Cure for Ankara’s Growing Isolation

Ankara’s growing military footprint in Libya is President Recep Erdogan’s effort to compensate for his failure to establish Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated governments in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.

December 21, 2018 | Romany Shaker |

Illicit Turkish Arms Still Flow Into Libya Despite UN Embargo

On Tuesday, Libyan port authorities at Al-Khoms...

October 5, 2018 | Romany Shaker

U.S. and UN Sanction Libyan Militia Leader Ibrahim Jadran

On September 12, the United States and the United Nations sanctio...

September 14, 2018 | Romany Shaker |

Islamic State Attacks Libya’s National Oil Corporation

The Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility fo...

August 10, 2018 | Romany Shaker

France vs Italy in Libya: The U.S. Should Not Choose Sides

After meeting with President Donald Trump on July 30, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte...

June 24, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Islamic State’s Varying Fortunes in North Africa

The jihadist group that calls itself the Islamic State has increasingly set its sights on expanding into North Africa. The eighth issue of the group’s English-language magazineDabiq...

March 17, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Turkey’s Secret Proxy War in Libya?

Libya’s internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni accused...

March 10, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer, Merve Tahiroglu

Jihadi General Hospital

Controversy erupted in Turkey la...

March 2, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Is Libya the Next Stronghold of the Islamic State?

Co-authored by Nathaniel Barr Exactly four years after the protests that kicked off the Libyan revolution, the country has again...

February 26, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

New Report by FDD Scholar Outlines Civil War in Libya

WASHINGTON- A new report authored by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, outlines how Libya’s civil war between the Dignity and Dawn campaig...

August 13, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Libya’s Islamist Counteroffensive

Co-authored by Nathaniel Barr Through much of June and the first half of July, fighting between the forces of rogue General Khalifa Hifter and Benghazi’s Islamist militias...

September 14, 2012 | |

About Those Blacklisted Iranian Ships Calling at Libyan Ports…

The U.S. is looking for ways to beef up security in Libya, following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Two warships an...

March 18, 2011 | Jonathan Schanzer

Obama Vindicated on Libya Approach?

Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa announced today that his country had called for a halt to all military operations against opposition forces. The move follows Thursday’s U.N. Security...