Libyans hope for law and order as country is torn apart
Today’s attack on the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, is a symbol of the anarchy that has come to characterise the country.
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When protestors took sledgehammers to the symbols of his rule, Gaddafi’s regime started to crumble. Writing in The Sunday Times, Lindsey Hilsum meets a Libyan who put his life on the line, and onto YouTube.
Today’s attack on the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, is a symbol of the anarchy that has come to characterise the country.
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.
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.
The death toll from clashes between renegade military forces and Islamist militants in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi rises to 43, with more than 100 injured, the government says.
Old scores are being settled in Libya as militias fight to assert their power in towns and cities across the country.
Nothing exemplifies the state of Libya so much as a conversation I had with an analyst in Benghazi this morning, writes Lindsey Hilsum.
Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been released after being taken by force at a hotel in Tripoli and held for several hours by a group of former rebels.
The US says it will increase military assistance, including arms, to Syrian rebels after claiming Damascus used chemical weapons. But the Syrian government dismisses the claim as “full of lies”.
More than 80 Conservative MPs have urged Prime Minister David Cameron to hold a Commons vote before Britain sends any arms to the Syrian rebels.
As the EU lifts its embargo on arming Syria’s rebels, what weaponry do the anti-Assad forces need in their fight against the regime?
Syrian rebels have amassed large arsenals of weapons – through smuggling and raids on government facilities. Channel 4 News reveals some of the weapons being used against Bashar al-Assad’s government.
A decade since the war in Iraq, a YouGov poll reveals half the British people are against giving Syria’s rebels any military hardware whatsoever.
I’ve updated my book Sandstorm with an epilogue, taking into account the killing of the US ambassador and other events in Libya. I also write on Mali, showing the links between events in the two countries.
Syrian rebels say they have downed a fighter jet, with pictures emerging showing a man identified as the pilot surrounded by three armed men.