A closer look into Hillary Clinton’s emails between January 2011 and December 2012 disclose that the US administration had enough information to thwart the attack on its diplomatic compound in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, during which time Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other US officials were killed. A closer look into Hillary Clinton’s emails […]

Having restored the wall of his bedroom struck by a mortar shell in late June, Ahmed Abdussalam, 33, rushed in the same night to put out a fire that broke out in his neighbor’s house which had been empty for months because of the ongoing armed conflict in the Laithi area where he lives. Having […]

It is nearly impossible to walk through the Bab Al-Hurria arch that leads to Al-Musheer Market in the old town of Tripoli, without facing crowds of pushy currency dealers. The currency trade has dominated over all the other traditional trades in Al-Musheer’s market, like gold, silver, silk, shoes, wedding ceremony supplies and other hand crafts. […]

Twenty-seven-year-old Amin Abdullah and twenty-eight-year-old Mohammed Saleh were friends who met at the same café, played football at the same playground and swam at the same beach before the war turned them into enemies on the battlefield. Amin is affiliated with Ansar Al-Sharia and Benghazi Revolutionaries’ Shura Council while Saleh is affiliated with the Dignity […]

On April 3, 2012, Jacob Sullivan (Head of Political Planning Department and Deputy of a senior Foreign Ministry staff) sent Jeffrey Feltman (Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs), Jane Kretz (the first US Ambassador to Libya after the fall of Gaddafi’s regime) and Chris Stevens (US envoy to the Transitional National Council, (TNC) […]

For nearly four years, Fatima has been dreaming about returning to her hometown of Tawergha and away from the filthy refugee camp on the airport road in the Falah area of Tripoli where she now lives. The camp lacks basic necessities and Fatima’s eldest daughter suffers from a rash caused by insects in the camp. […]

Pending the outcome of the Skhirat dialogue on the formation of a new national unity government, polemics over the National Oil Corporation responsible for boosting the revenue wheel in Libya continues unabated. Pending the outcome of the Skhirat dialogue on the formation of a new national unity government, polemics over the National Oil Corporation responsible […]

Although Bernardino Leon, head of the UN Special Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has exerted great efforts, his consecutive draft solutions have lacked one element that would put an end to the ongoing chaos and reassemble the fragmented Libyan political structure – a collective national security concept. Although Bernardino Leon, head of the UN Special Mission […]

According to emails sent to and from the former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, the military chief of staff for the Libyan opposition was killed on orders from his own commander. According to emails sent to and from the former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, the military chief of staff for the Libyan […]

Autism has meant that Hassan Fakhery, a 60-year-old from the town of Brak in the Wadi al Shatii district, had to move to a house in Tripoli. His son, Mohammed, is eight and he has been being treated for the disorder at the Tripoli Center for People with Special Needs for several years now; there […]