Libya: is it better to leave dictators in their place?
The disaster of Libya provided much of the reason for not aiding Syrians who rose against dictatorship in 2012. But is the best course of action to do nothing?
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As 400 migrants – including children – are feared to have died after a boat capsized off Libya, Channel 4 News looks at the desperate journeys migrants are taking to reach Europe.
Foreign policy: two words that have so far played very little part in the run-up to the general election. What would the parties do?
Families desert Libya’s coastal city of Sirte after two days of clashes between Islamic State militants and fighters loyal to a government based in Tripoli.
The disaster of Libya provided much of the reason for not aiding Syrians who rose against dictatorship in 2012. But is the best course of action to do nothing?
Many Libyans who fought to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi are in despair. They know their failure to curb the rise in Islamic State could be deadly for their disintegrating country.
Today’s attack on the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, is a symbol of the anarchy that has come to characterise the country.
The chair of the inquiry into British intelligence agencies’ complicity in the CIA’s interrogation programme demands the US hand over material that was redacted from the report.
“A bunch of militamen were in control of a British army base in the UK”. A whistleblower gives his shocking account of the Libyan army training fiasco to International Editor Lindsey Hilsum.
The debacle of Libyan soldiers accused of rape while on a training course near Cambridge symbolises the chaos of both post-revolutionary Libya and British policy.
British hostage David Bolam is set free after being held by Libyan militants for six months, after reports that a ransom was paid to secure his release.
He led the far-Right BNP through electoral thick and thin for 15 years. Now, after his expulsion, Channel 4 News sheds light on the battle raging within the party that has done for Nick Griffin.
18-year-old Libyan civil society activist Tawfik Bensaud was killed on Friday, probably by Islamists. His friends are now struggling to keep faith in the democratic state they dream of.
Libya’s rival factions are called Dawn and Dignity. But fighting means it has little chance of achieving the new dawn or the life of dignity the 2011 revolution promised.
In 2011 they were all revolutionaries trying to overthrow Gaddafi. Now, says Lindsey Hilsum, Islamists are battling secularists for control in Libya – and the west is ignoring the country’s implosion.
David Cameron will return to Cornwall later after interrupting his holiday over events in Iraq. Who is in charge while he is away from Downing Street?