Tripoli

Turkey’s Maritime Strategy Heightens the Risk of a New Eastern Mediterranean Crisis

Ankara’s New Legislative Initiative May Appear Technical or Bureaucratic, but It Represents a Calculated Escalation by Erdoğan

SADAT: Turkey’s Wagner Group

The SADAT International Defense Consultancy has grown into a key instrument of Turkish influence in Africa and the Middle East.

What would Thomas Jefferson do?  

America’s third president understood that jihadis don’t make good deals

Islamist Turkey: A Base for Muslim Brotherhood Jihadism

Strait talk 

American victory passes through Hormuz

Blacklisting the Brotherhood

The Trump administration made history on November 24, 2025, when it issued an executive order calling for the U.S. government to designate “certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as Foreign Terrorist...

Libyan parliament speaker claims maritime deal with Turkey invalid but open to renegotiation

On December 15, Aguila Saleh, Libya’s House of Representatives speaker, deemed the 2019 Libya-Turkey maritime deal illegitimate and non-binding in an interview with the Libyan News Agency (LANA)....

Patient Extremism: The Many Faces of the Muslim Brotherhood

Turkey is escalating tensions in the Mediterranean (again)

Turkey is once again stoking tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean – this time by undermining the sovereignty of Greece and Cyprus while wagering that Washington and Brussels will look the other way....

Turkey’s Neo-Ottoman Moment

Turkey’s Syria policy didn’t materialize in a vacuum. Rather, it was a reaction to the Arab uprisings that began in January 2011, known as the Arab Spring, which Turkish policymakers interpreted as...

Turkey is Making a Power Play to Dominate the Middle East

With Iran’s regional influence in steep decline, Turkey is aggressively positioning itself to fill the vacuum and assert dominance across the eastern Mediterranean and the broader Middle East....

Libya’s Prime Minister Fires Top Diplomat for Meeting With Israeli Counterpart

Libya’s prime minister fired his top diplomat on August 28 for meeting with her Israeli counterpart last week. News of the meeting had earlier set off protests in several cities...

Soldiers of Misfortune

The Wagner Group isn’t playing

The Wagner Group: Paramilitary Terrorism

President Biden recently stated he would deny congressional resolutions to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. The president’s response comes amid a broader discussion of how to counter...

Collusion or Collision?

Turkey-Russia Relations Under Erdogan and Putin

The Lasting Legacy of A.Q. Khan

His network sold substantial nuclear equipment and assistance to Iran, Libya, and North Korea and contributed to lasting security crises.

U.S. transfers Guantánamo detainee who allegedly led forces at Tora Bora

The U.S. State Department announced on July 19 that Abdul Latif Nasir, a detainee held at Guantanamo since 2002, had been transferred to his native country of Morocco. Nasir’s transfer from Guantánamo...

Turkey

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.

Libyan Civil War Aggravated by the Threat of COVID-19

According to official statistics COVID-19 has barely affected Libya, but the true number of cases is likely underreported. An ongoing civil war, a large refugee and migrant population, and a deficient...