Category: Blog
The Battle to Control Tripoli: Libya’s Dawn vs Libya’s Dignity
At dawn on Sunday, the 17 Feb. Revolutionary Libya Shield brigades launched a multi-pronged attack on the Zintan Qaaqaa, Sawaiq and Madani militia controlling Tripoli’s International Airport, and other key buildings. The Libya Shield brigades are determined to force the...
Tunisian Government Decrees Drastic Anti-Terrorism Measures
Following the killing of 14 Tunisian soldiers on Mount Chambi on the border with Algeria PM Mahdi Jouma convened a crisis taskforce which responded with a set of drastic measures. The crisis taskforce decided to close down all mosques that...
Partial Results of Parliamentary Elections Announced
The High National Elections Commission (HNEC) announced on Sunday partial results of the parliamentary elections that took place on 25 June. The HNEC stated that election results were annulled in twenty-four polling stations for fraud and other irregularities, and that...
Ansar Asharia and ISIS
Unconfirmed news reports on social media platforms alleging that Seif Edine Al-Rais, former spokesman of Ansar Asharia, swore allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, compelled the public prosecutor’s office in Kairouan to open an investigation into the matter. On...
Tunisia’s kidnapped diplomats released
Tunisia’s diplomats Mohamed Ben Cheikh et Laroussi Gantassi, who were kidnapped in Benghazia and Tripoli last March and April respectively, were released over the weekend.MongiHamdi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said in a press conference that the Tunisian government did not...
An outspoken Human Rights Activist silenced for good
Salwa Bugaighis, a Libyan lawyer and outspoken human rights activist, was shot dead at her house in Benghazi short after voting last Tuesday. Bugaighis was a member of the National Transitional Council that led the uprising that deposed Qaddafi in...
Tunisian Academia ponders Salafism
There has been growing interest among Tunisian research centers in the study of Salafi movements in the country and the region. Two weeks ago the Ministry of Interior announced that around 400 Salafi Tunisians had been killed in Syria and...
The Stalemate Continues
Clashes between Libya’s Shield and Gen. Hafter’s loyalists continued with a bloody confrontation at a Benghazi port and an air strike at the Ansar al-Sharia base in Derna. On Saturday June 22, Hafter issued a 48 hour ultimatum for all...