Skip to main content

Will Russia and Turkey withdraw their proxies from Libya?

The UN delivers a potentially game-changing win for diplomacy, but the United States wants Russian and Turkish mercenaries out of Libya.

GettyImages-1200816779.jpg
Supporters of Libyan military strongman Khalifa Hifter wave a national flag as they take part in a demonstration in the coastal city of Benghazi in eastern Libya against Turkish intervention in the country's affairs on Feb. 14, 2020. — ABDULLAH DOMA/AFP via Getty Images

‘Critical step’ at beginning of ‘long road’ in Libya

Much attention this week has been focused on the Biden administration’s jump-start to diplomacy to end the war in Yemen, which the UN has tagged the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, as we report here.

But there is perhaps even better news in the region’s other major conflict zone, Libya.

Having been ripped apart by civil war for nearly 10 years since a NATO-backed uprising overthrew former dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, the country seemed fated to be a perpetual failed state.

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE

Continue reading this exclusive analysis

Original reporting and analysis unavailable elsewhere. Subscribe to AL-MONITOR to read this story and access everything we publish