Lindsey Hilsum
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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Lindsey Hilsum
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Lindsey Hilsum
Could the rise of Islamic State prove fatal for Libya?
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.
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Lindsey Hilsum
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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Alex Thomson
Libyan army training fiasco – UK government complacency to blame?
Why did the UK government ever think that the vetting of participants in a scheme to train Libyan soldiers in the UK could be left to the Libyans, when that country was in a state of collapse?
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Lindsey Hilsum
‘Asking for trouble’: Libyan soldiers sent home amid rape allegations
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.
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Simon Israel
No state immunity for Jack Straw, MI5 and MI6 in rendition case
The government suffers a significant defeat in attempts to avoid a trial over allegations of complicity in the imprisonment, rendition and torture of a Libyan couple in 2004.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Murdered in the fight to build a democratic Libya
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.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Neither dawn nor dignity in Libya
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.
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Matt Frei
Why US foreign policy is like ‘smoking without inhaling’
To America, the Middle East is like a balloon. If you squeeze it in one corner it will bulge in another. You just can’t be sure where.
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Gaza, Israel, MH17. And now for the rest of today’s news…
As the news channels focused on violence in Gaza and the tragedy of MH17, what else happened? Channel 4 News finds out.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Salwa Bugaighis: Libyan human rights activist who took on Gaddafi
The Libyan human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis has been shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in Benghazi on the day of the country’s general election.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Dreaming of Europe, Africa’s migrants risk disease, rape and death
Migrants are risking unimaginable horror to escape the poverty of sub-Saharan Africa, travelling through Libya in search of Europe’s promised land.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Why Libya’s revolutionaries are the greatest threat to its revolution
Old scores are being settled in Libya as militias fight to assert their power in towns and cities across the country.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Libyan PM kidnapping reveals state of country
Nothing exemplifies the state of Libya so much as a conversation I had with an analyst in Benghazi this morning, writes Lindsey Hilsum.
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Lindsey Hilsum
The saviour who won’t rise from the streets
“Waste your summer praying in vain, For a saviour to rise from these streets” – what Bruce Springsteen can teach us about Egypt and the Arab Spring.
