The separatist military organisation sent a high-level delegation to eastern Libya to hold talks with Saddam Haftar. However, requests for collaboration and support in military equipment have gone

The Libyan leader met the Israeli Prime Minister in secret in Abu Dhabi, is planning a summit with the U.S. Vice-President and hopes to hold another with the ambassador loyal to Trump. All to prove to...

“Make sure you don’t sleep,” one trafficker belted out. “If you sleep, you fall off. And if you fall off, you die!” Nearly every day in...

يتهكم الكاتب بمرارة على قرار الزعيم الليبي معمر القذافي بالتخلي عن برامجه التسلحية في ظل الأحداث الراهنة، ويرى أن بوش والقذافي لم يبتدعا نظريتي الإخضاع والخضوع الموجودتين منذ عقود في الجانبين العربي و...

أوقفت وزارة الحكم المحلي بحكومة حماد 12 عميد بلدية من مناطق الجنوب عن العمل، وأخضعتهم للتحقيق بسبب إجرائهم لقاءات واتصالات في طرابلس وفق بيان صادر عن عمداء البلديات المنتخبين…

Libya: Tribal leader arrested for calling the Toubou "slaves from Chad." Read more on Agenzia Nova.

Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.

How checkpoints drive marketisation, state predation and resistance in South Sudan

A leaked UN Panel of Experts report reveals RSF commanders ordered rape and killings during the takeover of El Fasher in North Darfur, western Sudan.

The documents bolster allegations that the Sudanese military developed and used toxic bombs to gain an edge in the country’s devastating civil war.

On my last visit to Tripoli, this past June, the city often felt as if it had left the protracted conflicts of Libya’s post-Qaddafi era behind. At night,

Kaouther Ben Hania’s film retells the story of the 5-year-old’s final hours and amplifies her voice to indict the world’s silence over Gaza’s children

Au Tchad, le pouvoir veut tourner la page des tensions politiques. Succès Masra, l’ancien Premier ministre et principal opposant au président Mahamat Idriss Déby, vient d’être gracié après plusieurs mois de prison. À peine libéré, il propose un gouvernement d’union nationale, mais cette proposition « n’est pas du tout à l’ordre du jour » pour les autorités, répond le porte-parole du gouvernement et ministre de la Communication, Gassim Cherif Mahamat.

<article data-history-node-id="446195" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uae-defence-ministry-says-iran-fired-two-ballistic-missiles-territory" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uae-defence-ministry-says-iran-fired-two-ballistic-missiles-territory" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UAE defence ministry says Iran fired two ballistic missiles at territory</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The UAE's defence ministry said on Tuesday that Iran targeted its terrority with two ballistic missiles, after reports that the country issued a missile threat alert earlier.</p> <p>In a post to X, the ministry said that air defences “detected two ballistic missiles launched from Iran toward the country, with the first falling outside the country’s territorial waters, while the second fell within the territorial waters”.</p> <p>The statement added that the country is on high alert and ready to deal with any threats.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="rtl" lang="ar">أعلنت وزارة الدفاع أن الدفاعات الجوية الإماراتية رصدت عدد 2 صواريخ باليستية قادمة من إيران باتجاه الدولة، حيث سقط الأول خارج المياه الإقليمية للدولة، فيما سقط الثاني في المياه الإقليمية.<br> <br> وتؤكد وزارة الدفاع أنها على أهبة الاستعداد والجاهزية للتعامل مع أي تهديدات، والتصدي بحزم لكل… <a href="https://t.co/GiMuKTjhvK">pic.twitter.com/GiMuKTjhvK</a></p> — وزارة الدفاع |MOD UAE (@modgovae) <a href="https://x.com/modgovae/status/2089752546915365325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>

Authorities in eastern Libya under military commander Khalifa Haftar helped secure the release of an American missionary held hostage held by an Islamic State affiliate in West Africa's Sahel region, ...

La libération du chef rebelle nigérien Mahmoud Salah par Benghazi marque une rupture nette entre le clan Haftar et la junte de Niamey. Elle illustre comment le Sahel devient le théâtre d’une guerre d’...

On my last visit to Tripoli, this past June, the city often felt as if it had left the protracted conflicts of Libya’s post-Qaddafi era behind. At night,

In an earlier post, I noted that by the mid-1980s, the CIA only had a dedicated staff of some 30 analysts to cover all of Sub-Saharan Africa, located in its Office of African and Latin American Analys...

When photographer Mohammed Almuntasir uploaded a YouTube video showing a sand cat in Libya, it kickstarted a quest to scientifically document the feline in the country for the first time.

The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in th...

How the Sahara’s checkpoints make states

How the Sahara’s checkpoints make states

What happens when armed groups no longer depend on supply lines or state backing, but operate as self sustaining ecosystems embedded in the global economy?

Podcast Episode · The Documentary Podcast · June 9 · 28m

Rejected asylum seekers unable to be returned home may end up in centres created outside the EU bloc. The UN agency is helping EU states stay clear of any possible future legal court cases.

Join us on 18 June for a briefing on how checkpoint economies shape conflict dynamics, governance, humanitarian access, and livelihoods across fragile and conflict-affected settings.

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YouTube video by AfrotroniX - Official

A document leaked to Statewatch confirms that the EU has begun collaborating with Libya’s eastern forces on migration control. This collaboration includes training, support and the development of a re...

La Cour suprême de Ndjamena a rejeté, jeudi 21 mai, le pourvoi en cassation déposé par le collectif d’avocats de l'ancien chef du gouvernement, rendant ainsi définitive sa condamnation à 20 ans de prison ferme pour avoir diffusé, en 2023, un message qui aurait provoqué, deux ans plus tard, des affrontements intercommunautaires sanglants à Mandakao, selon la justice tchadienne.

Guest Column - The central African nation of Chad has entered a phase of acute structural vulnerability that puts it and the wider on a collision path with state collapse. Too long ignored by regional...

A new website has been released for James Cobb’s published book “Big Green Circles in the Desert: My Work on the Kufrah-Sarir Agricultural Project in Libya.” This website serves as a gateway to explor...