More: Libya
What may cause Oil prices to fall?
Oil prices have rallied a whopping 30 percent this year. Among other factors, OPEC’s commitment to reduce output,
geopolitical flash-points like the brewing war in...
Arab power struggles: “The King is dead, long live the King”
Political transition in the Middle East and North Africa operates so far
on the principle of ‘The King is dead, long live the King.’
Libya’s battle...
War in Libya: A rare instance of US-Russian cooperation
There is little that Russia and the United States
agree on these days. Renegade Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Belqasim Haftar may
be a rare exception.
As Mr....
Russian- Arab Cooperation Forum
On April
16, Moscow hosted the 5th Russian-Arab Cooperation Forum to review
comprehensively its strategic goals and achievements, challenges and layout
plans for the future. The Fifth...
Battling for the Future: Arab Protests 2.0
Momentous developments across Arab North and East Africa suggest the
long-drawn-out process of political transition in the region as well as the
greater Middle East is...
Khalifa Haftar’s military advance
Khalifa
Haftar's military advance-started in Jufra on April 4 last - passed from the South, namely Fezzan, and
partly from Central Libya, starting from
the Westernmost point...
Libya: Will the U.N. Appeal for a halt to the March on Tripoli be heard?
With the
administrative-political situation in Libya badly stalemated and a meeting for
negotiations to be held 14-16 April unlikely to make progress, on Thursday 4
April 2019,...
Middle Eastern protests challenge debilitating Gulf counterrevolution
Much of
the Middle East’s recent turmoil stems from internecine Middle Eastern
rivalries spilling onto third country battlefields and Saudi and United Arab
Emirates-led efforts to roll...
Italy vs France: War of elites over “yellow vests” and Libya
The disputes, which regularly flare up between the current governments of France and Italy are important for Russia, since the ideological rift between President...
Libya: Blind alleys of political settlement
An international conference on Libya, mediated by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte that was recently held in Palermo, Sicily, was looking for ways to...