NPR's Ari Shapiro talks about the ongoing battle for Tripoli, the capital of Libya, with Frederic Wehrey, author of The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya.

The last time Libya’s war had the world’s full attention, it was being fought mainly by Libyans. For much of 2011, young revolutionaries in mismatched fatigues clamored on anti-aircraft guns ...

This is the battle for Libya’s two largest oil ports at the towns of al-Sidr and Ras Lanuf. It is but one front of a complex and largely forgotten civil war that, since May of last year, has ...

The Framers were right. And we have shown just how right they were with decades of undeclared wars and so little accountability.

Read about Libya’s civil war and struggle to restore state institutions since the ouster of Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi. Track the latest developments on CFR’s Global Conflict Tracker.

As the Rapid Support Forces seize strategic territory near Sudan’s borders with Libya and Egypt, new fronts are opening in a ...

President Obama speaks about the Libya war – March 2011 (Reuters.) In a recent interview with Fox News, President Obama admitted that the handling of the 2011 military intervention in Libya was ...

Libya death toll expected to continue rising after devastating flooding 01:44. Emergency response teams and aid have been deployed from countries including Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Russia ...

Longtime Libya watchers were more direct, suggesting that, after around four years of relative calm in the country, civil war might be about to break out once again.

Battle of Tobruk - Libya WW2. Posted: June 3, 2025 | Last updated: June 3, 2025. The port city of Tobruk would become the epicenter of the brutal African campaign during World War 2, ...