Interview Conducted By Matthias Gebauer and Holger Stark AP Islamic State fighters in Raqqa, Syria: “The sad fact is that we have to put troops on the ground. We won’t succeed against this enemy with air strikes alone.” Without the Iraq war, Islamic State wouldn’t exist today, former US special […]
LINDA S. HEARD Published — Wednesday 2 December 2015 The self-assigned capital of Daesh, Raqqa, is being pounded from the air, forcing fighters to send their families across the border to Mosul for safety. For the West, the Paris attacks have been a game changer. Now that Daesh commanders have […]
It remains unclear exactly why or how the Gadhafi regime went from “a model” and an “important ally” to the next target for regime change in a period of just a few years. But after claims of “genocide” as the justification for NATO intervention were disputed by experts, several […]
Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES: The U.N. Security Council will vote Friday on a draft resolution authorizing European military action against migrant smugglers in the high seas off Libya’s coast, diplomats said. European warships launched Operation Sophia Wednesday to seize traffickers’ boats in international waters and stem the […]
SPIEGEL ONLINE For months, the Islamic State visited its reign of terror on the city of Derna, Libya — until it was stopped by an al-Qaida offshoot. Farrah Schennib describes the horrors of daily life under the IS in his diary. Only 300 kilometers (186 miles) separate dream from […]
War begets refugees Aug 18,2015 – JORDAN TIMES On April 26, 2011, a meeting that can only be described as sinister took place between then-Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The most pressing issue discussed at the meeting in Rome was how to deal with African immigrants. […]
Abdullah al-Senussi execution: This perversion of justice suits Western security services just fine The secret agreements between our intelligence and Gaddafi’s torturers will now remain safe for good BY ROBERT FISK Shutting them up. That’s what it’s about. The hangman’s drop, the crackle of the firing squad, and their secrets […]
By Reuters – Jul 01,2015 – Last updated at Jul 01,2015 Abdullah Al Thinni VALLETTA — The internationally recognised prime minister of Libya said he hoped to reach a power-sharing peace agreement on Thursday with his rivals during UN-backed talks that seek to end a conflict that threatens to […]
by Patrick Cockburn The aftermath of an Isis suicide bomb attack during the battle for Kobani On June 30 last year, Isis said it was establishing a caliphate in the territories under its control in Iraq and Syria. As part of a series by The Independent marking this anniversary, […]
Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa arrive in Augusta, Sicily, in April. Having been screened for disease and photographed by police, they wait to be bussed to a reception center.Alessio Mamo / Redux DAVID FRUM JULY/AUGUST 2015 ISSUE Illegal migration across the Mediterranean has tripled since the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi in […]
Reuters | May 25, 2015 | 23:41 Updated: May 25, 2015 | 23:41 CAIRO — Hundreds of Libyan tribal leaders met in Cairo on Monday with Egyptian authorities hoping to enlist their help in preventing Islamist violence from spilling over their shared border. Islamist militants have thrived in the chaos […]
REUTERS Published — Thursday 21 May 2015 SIRTE, Libya: Standing guard at his frontline post, Libyan soldier Mohammed Abu Shager can see where Islamic State militants are holed up with their heavy weaponry less than a kilometer away. The militants have effectively taken over former dictator Muammar Qaddafi’s home […]
Epigraph: And what is the matter with you that you struggle not in the cause of Allah and of the weak — men, women and children — who say, ‘Our […]
END OF ORDEAL: An Ethiopian man waves an Egyptian flag as the group he is part of disembarks from a plane at the Cairo airport. They were freed by Egypt’s security services from a militant group in Libya. (AFP) AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Published — Friday 8 May 2015 CAIRO: […]
AP | Apr 23, 2015 | JORDAN TIMES Migrants crowd an inflatable dinghy as rescue vassel ‘ Denaro ‘ (not in picture) of the Italian coast guard approaches them, off the Libyan coast, in the Mediterranean Sea, on Wednesday (AP photo ) CAIRO — Libya’s chaos has turned it into […]
Italian investigators reveal new details about the dirty business of people smuggling – including discussions on where best to invest their money 9 23 0 0 32 Email Mohammed Ali Malek (C, rear), one of two survivors of Saturday’s migrant boat disaster, later arrested on suspicion of people trafficking, is […]
The Tunisian captain of a boat that capsized off Libya on Sunday, killing hundreds of migrants, has been charged with reckless multiple homicide, Italian officials say. He has also been charged along with a Syrian member of the crew with favouring illegal immigration. The two were among 27 survivors who […]
The Tunisian captain of a boat that capsized off Libya on Sunday, killing hundreds of migrants, has been charged with reckless multiple homicide, Italian officials say. He has also been charged along with a Syrian member of the crew with favouring illegal immigration. The two were among 27 survivors who […]
More than 40 people have drowned in the latest sinking of a migrant boat between Libya and Italy. The Italian navy rescued four people. Almost 10,000 migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean have been plucked from the sea in recent days. Separately, Italian police say they have arrested 15 Muslim […]
The UN refugee agency says not enough is being done to save the lives of the rising number of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. A UNHCR spokesman called on the EU to step up its rescue system, after a migrant boat capsized off Libya on Sunday, with […]