Libya

US lobby firm secures $2m contract to whitewash image of Libya’s Haftar

Ballard Partners has close ties to the Trump administration, which is reportedly working on a power-sharing deal in Libya bypassing elections

How Iran war may accelerate the fall of US empire

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel attacks Iran

Trump-Netanyahu war aims to entrap Iranians into unconditional submission

Hamid Dabashi

Saudi-UAE Tensions

How Saudi Arabia plans to reshape the Middle East

David Hearst

Saudi Arabia starts Ramadan on Wednesday, but many others to begin a day later

Israel normalisation deals

Majority of Arabs oppose normalisation with Israel, pan-Arab survey finds

Iran-Israel tensions

Trump must defy Netanyahu's push for war on Iran

Dr Ahmed Altuwaijri

Libya: Gaddafi supporters left without rallying figure after Saif al-Islam’s killing

Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, killed in Libya

Eastern Libyan forces attack Tripoli airport for second night

The battle for Libya's oil wealth is set to intensify

Guma el-Gamaty

Arabic press review: Brand new Egyptian military group formed to protect Sisi

UN evacuates 149 refugees from Libya as fighting rages near capital

Women's football in Libya: The struggle to play on the field of dreams

Libya's decline is a damning indictment of Nato's intervention

Dan Glazebrook

Echoes of al-Andalus: The Portuguese town celebrating its forgotten Islamic past

Libyan commander Haftar tells French president no ceasefire for now

Tunisia Politics

UN expert held in Tunisia over alleged espionage freed on bail

Battle for Libya's Tripoli is 'start of long and bloody war', UN envoy says

Tripoli's water supply reconnected, allaying fears of humanitarian crisis

Arabic press review: Saudi deputy defence minister secretly visits Khartoum