The Rapid Support Forces secured territorial gains but suffered political losses

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...

TRIPOLI – The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) expresses grave concern that more than 30 individuals have been executed in eastern Libya in recent weeks, and calls on the

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.

The case for the White House’s Security Council resolution on Sudan, made by two senior administration officials.

Former Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons officials say they have found evidence that the Sudanese government may have deployed chemicals amid the country's ongoing civil war.

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.

A text message to a military officer involved in airstrikes included video of an apparent victim with charred skin, with the words: “Your cooking.”

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...

This article examines how European Union (EU) migration externalization is perceived and negotiated in southern Libya. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in 2022–20...

How the Sahara’s checkpoints make states

How the Sahara’s checkpoints make states