German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the International Libya Conference in Berlin, Germany, 19 January 2020.
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Can the key external enablers of Libya’s conflict also be peacemakers?
Militants stand on gun-mounted vehicles as they prepare to move to the frontline to join forces loyal to the UN-backed unity government, in Tripoli.
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A serious concern is the possibility of a long, drawn-out siege of Libya’s capital, Tripoli.
Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar.
EPA
The Libyan warlord and presidential hopeful looks likely to avoid a summons to The Hague.
Saif al-Islam, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
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The news of Saif al-Islam’s release should be taken with a pinch of salt. During the past six years of warfare in Libya the fabrication of news has become common practice.
Libyans marking the fifth anniversary of the 2011 uprising on February 17.
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With everything from Islamic State to disenfranchised black Africans to deal with, the former Gaddafi stronghold has everything to achieve.