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A rare first-hand report from Libya and details the civil war underway. Some interesting points on the militia....

A rare report on events in Libya, now over who controls the oilfields and of course the consequences. Alas the map is dated July 2018, presumaly the areas of control have not changed since then....

An ICSR report and the full title is slightly different: 'Ghosts of the Past: The Muslim Brotherhood and its Stuggle for Legitimacy in post-Qaddafi Libya'.
In Summary:Link to full...

A short paper from ICSR and their explanation:
Link:https://icsr.info/2018/08/09/libyan-elections-in-2018-a-potentially-ruinous-endeavour/

A SME has a report on the situation, which is summarized in the sub-title:Or the closing paragraphs:LinK:...

A rare report on this urban conflict, now in it's sixth month:http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-libya-security-insight-idUKKBN13D226

Not encouraging for other cities.

A short article by Peter Oborne, which includes a British 'double game':Link:http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/libyas-tripoli-government-farce-1979201566


He also refers to a new iCG Report on...

A political overview by Alison Pargeter, a SME on Libya:https://www.opendemocracy.net/alison-pargeter/failing-libya?

She ends with:

We tend IMHO to overlook Italy's role and knowledge of Libya, so the kidnapping of two Italians and another was missed here. This short report from the Quilliam Foundation, with two Libyan authors is...

The title of a recent Washington Quarterly article by a French adviser on foreign affairs; which ends...

An almost revisionist article by Shadi Hamid, a senior fellow at the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East ...

An interesting article, although my first reaction was where is the evidence. Would Boko Haram veterans fit in, but then US$1k per month adds to the attraction....

A story in The Daily Telegraph (UK) credited to a reporter in Washington DC, cannot think why. It starts with:...

Via Twitter from @BabakTaghvee, an aero-jornalist.
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A Q&A session with three UK experts before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. A mix of strategy, detail and what next. With some very curious passages, here is...

Again via Twitter:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Caf402qXIAAT7Ty.jpg

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From the Soufan Group via Twitter. Possibly from this report last week:http://soufangroup.com/libya-extremism-and-the-consequences-of-collapse/

From ECFR by a recommended Italian SME (via Twitter) and starts with:
Link:http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_march_to_folly_2.0_the_next_western_military_intervention_in5083

Link to ECFR...

Catching up, a three week old article from The Spectator, by a journalist who went there. With the title and sub-title:...

Dr Omar Ashour's latest paper for Brookings: 'Between ISIS and a failed state: The saga of Libyan Islamists' (15 pgs):http://t.co/zeHpp4EfON

The summary:

Just two posts away I said:

This AM John Simpson, the BBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent, was on the radio from Tripoli:
No TV footage yet:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-33673034

A short comment by blogger Kyle Orton, it starts with:
Link:https://kyleorton1991.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/demise-of-an-ex-saddamist-in-libya/

Like others in Europe I have watched the civil war develop, now with ISIS on the prowl and sadly recoiled from too close a watch. Civil wars are rarely simple and invariably horrible.

There is...

The civil war, now with a dash of ISIS, does get some attention in the media, albeit with rare in-country reporting. Instead the consequences of the absence of a working Libyan state is seen in the...

A short explanation by Carnegie of the Islamic State’s Strategy in Libya; an example:
Link:http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/2015/03/25/islamic-state-s-strategy-in-libya/i4w6