Migrant boats: Thousands saved off Libyan coast over Easter
Source: BBC Thousands of migrants have been saved from the sea near Libya during one of the busiest weekends of the year for rescue workers. More than 2,000 people were […]
Migrant rescuers accuse EU border agency of conspiracy
By AFP – Apr 12,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Gambian migrants who voluntarily returned from Libya stand in line as they wait for registration at the airport in Banjul, Gambia, […]
IOM expects to fly up to 10,000 migrants out of Libya in 2017
Libya is main departure point for Europe By Reuters – Apr 01,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Illegal African migrants arrive at Mitiga International Airport before their voluntary return to their […]
Conspiracy Theories: The Age of Post-reason
The age of post-reason Source: Jordan Times By Ali Kassay During the revolution against Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi, a highly educated man assured me that the West conspired to instigate […]
Broken Land
AFP/Getty Images Broken Land Five years after the uprising that led to the downfall of Qaddafi, Libya is a failed state, torn apart by rival militias. ISIS is growing stronger by the day, and poorly armed makeshift militias are all that stand in its way. BuzzFeed News’ Borzou Daragahi reports […]
Egypt brokers Libya peace roadmap, but key figures fail to meet
Reuters International FEB 16, 2017 By Lin Noueihed and Ahmed Mohammed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) – Libyan factions have tentatively agreed on an Egyptian-brokered roadmap to heal divisions, Egypt said, though the failure to engineer a meeting between two key figures has cast a shadow on the diplomatic push. The […]
5 Years After Gaddafi’s Murder: Libya Destroyed
NIRAJ SRIVASTAVA 5 Years After Gaddafi’s Murder: Libya Destroyed NIRAJ SRIVASTAVA Friday, November 25,2016 BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA: When I arrived in Libya in March 1994 as a middle-ranking diplomat, the country was under UN sanctions related to the 1988 Lockerbie disaster. No flights to and from Libya were permitted; we had […]
U.N. chief says Fayyad ‘right man’ to be Libya envoy despite U.S. objection
Reuters International FEB 13, 2017 – Former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad attends an opening reception of Conference on Cooperation among East Asian Countries for Palestinian Delevopment (CEAPAD) in Tokyo February 13, 2013. REUTERS/Issei Kato (reuters_tickers) DUBAI (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday he believed former […]
Trump envoy blocks ex-Palestinian PM from UN job ‘to support Israel’
Nikki Haley, US ambassador to United Nations, rejects choice of Salam Fayyad as Libya peace broker and declares UN ‘biased to the detriment of our allies’ Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad (L) and then Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak shake hands at a conference on security and policy in […]
134 Million Banned From USA, Is it Islamophobia or Simply ‘Divide and Rule?’
The Muslim Times has the best collection to tackle Islamophobia Trump’s latest executive order: Banning people from 7 countries and more By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Washington (CNN) With just a […]
Libyans haven’t forgotten history
ORDER FROM CHAOS Federica Saini Fasanotti Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Last week, the Italian government reopened the embassy in Tripoli, the first to do so after the majority of Libya’s embassies closed in 2015. A number of Libyans exploited the news with a media war and talk of neo-colonialism. They couldn’t […]
Hillary Emails, Gold Dinars and Arab Springs
Buried amid tens of thousands of pages of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s secret emails, now being made public by the US Government, is a devastating email exchange between Clinton and her confidential adviser, Sid Blumenthal. It’s about Qaddafi and the US-coordinated intervention in 2011 to topple the […]
‘old News’: Declassified Emails Reveal NATO Killed Gaddafi to Stop Libyan Creation of Gold-Backed Currency Read
Jay Syrmopoulos January 14, 2016 58 Comments Washington, D.C. – In spite of French-led U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 creating a no-fly zone over Libya with the express intent of protecting civilians, one of the over 3,000 new Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department on New Year’s Eve, contain […]
The unlikely saviours of Libya’s Roman remains
By AFP – Dec 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Libyan men guard the amphitheatre in the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna in Al Khoms, 130 km east of the Libyan capital Tripoli, on Sunday (AFP photo) LEPTIS MAGNA, Libya — Ali Hribish stands by the Arch of Septimius […]
Migrant disaster: Skipper guilty over 700 Mediterranean deaths
Source: BBC Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionMohammed Ali Malek had denied being captain of the boat A Tunisian man has been found guilty by a court in Sicily of causing the sinking […]
5 Years After Gaddafi’s Murder: Libya Destroyed
NIRAJ SRIVASTAVA 5 Years After Gaddafi’s Murder: Libya Destroyed NIRAJ SRIVASTAVA Friday, November 25,2016 BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA: When I arrived in Libya in March 1994 as a middle-ranking diplomat, the country was under UN sanctions related to the 1988 Lockerbie disaster. No flights to and from Libya were permitted; we had […]
All is not quiet on the Libyan front
Nov 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF Libya has not been much in the news lately, but that does not mean that all is good. Five years after Western powers intervened militarily in that country — at the height of the so-called Arab Spring — resulting in the […]
Migrant crisis: ‘Hundreds dead’ in shipwrecks off Libya
Source: BBC More than 200 migrants are believed drowned in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, migration officials say. The UN refugee agency was told the news by survivors […]
Nearly 11,000 migrants rescued in last 48 hours off Libya – Italian coast guard
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred; saving a life is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: Reuters By Crispian Balmer | ROME More than 5,000 migrants […]
Dutch photographer Oerlemans killed in Libya – employer
Reuters International OCT 2, 2016 – AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans has been shot dead by a sniper in Sirte, Libya, according to a report on Sunday on the website of the Belgian newspaper he had been working for. Knack said it had been informed of Oerlemans’ […]