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

UN to deploy security force to guard its base in Libya, says envoy

Haftar facing calls to hand over Libyan 'execution chief'

Libyan 'execution chief' at liberty in defiance of ICC warrant

'Daesh are back and want revenge': The fall and rise of IS in Libya

Bodies of 16 migrants found in Libya's desert near Egyptian border

Libyan forces launch air attacks on emboldened IS fighters

Libya's children scarred and haunted by war: 'It’s all they know'

UK must end support for arbitrary detention of refugees in Libya, says MSF

At least 8,500 refugees drowned on way to Europe since death of Alan Kurdi

The decline of IS in Libya and the Levant is a worry for Tunisia

Rhiannon Smith and Lachlan Wilson

Anti-migrant ship’s crew disembark in Malta, ending troubled mission

Italy accused of bribing Libyan militias to stop migrants reaching Europe