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Egypt has condemned the two MoUs as 'null and void,' and warned against any Turkish military intervention in Libya, and its repercussions - Photo compiled by ET Staff CAIRO -- [...]

If there is one attitude more dangerous than to assume that a future war will be just like the last one, it is to imagine that it will be so [...]

U.S Naval Aviation continued its worldwide presence, acting as an international force for good in 2021. Naval Aviation, in concert with NATO and coalition allies, confronted the forces of Libyan [...]

The 2011 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intervention in Libya was a success in several important respects: it helped topple Muammar Qaddafi's 42-year-old regime without the deployment of ground forces, [...]

In the last issue of The National Interest, we ran a cover story by Nikolas K. Gvosdev and Ray Takeyh positing that America's military role in helping bring down Libyan [...]

On the night of 19 March 2011, the United Statesengaged Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces in a series of air strikes in combination with a coalition of allies. Named Operation [...]

Humanitarian intervention--the conviction that American presidents must act, preemptively if necessary, to avert the massacre of innocents abroad--is steadily acquiring a new prominence in the Obama administration. For America's foreign-policy [...]

US President Obama suggested that one of his biggest regrets failure to plan for Libya after the 2011 NATO intervention. Libya is a failed state, but that does not mean [...]

For intelligence officers and soldiers whose job is to plan for worst-case scenarios--whether from the Arab World or western agencies--the confusion that surrounds the security situation in post-Gaddafi Libya is [...]

'Gadhafi must go!' That's the opinion of U S. President Barack Obama. It is also the opinion of a number of European and Arab leaders. On March 29, top officials [...]

Byline: -Philip Gourevitch THE NEW WORLD DISORDER On October 20, 2011, the day that Libyan rebel fighters found Colonel Muammar Qaddafi hiding in a desert culvert, hauled him out, and [...]

Byline: BY JON LEE ANDERSON THE UNRAVELLING In a failing state, an anti-Islamist general mounts a divisive campaign. Early last year, General cVirginia-where he had spent most of the previous [...]

On March 19, 2011, as the U. S. Navy command ship USS Mount Whitney sliced through the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily, Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, the commander of U. [...]

The new rulers must ensure that the victors do not imitate the vanquished A MONTH before Muammar's Qaddafi's death, a group of young Libyans in Benghazi, where the revolution began, [...]

Amid trepidation, the new regime is making a remarkably hopeful start IN THE evening cool at a fairground on the Tripoli waterfront, giggling children chant as they spin on a [...]

As rebels organize to govern Libya, global powers pay their respects to new rulers of a nation ranking ninth in the world with oil reserves. NATO supported overthrowing the Gaddafi [...]

Byline: James Kirchick Tripoli 'Raise your head,' reads a graffito as you cross the Libyan border on the desert road coming from Tunisia. 'You're in Libya.' Most of the graffiti [...]

The fall of Muammar Qaddafi will transform Libya, the Middle East and NATO THE climax of Libya's six-month-old revolt was not only televised via satellite but also text-messaged. Shortly after [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Goldberg It's a bit premature to say that Muammar Qaddafi has fallen, and this war has gone on just long enough to make a person hesitate about declaring [...]

Thanks to the rapid advances of rebel forces, Muammar Qaddafi's capital is now a city under siege 'TODAY Zawiya, tomorrow Tripoli,' cried a rebel fighter as he jumped into his [...]

Amid criticism, William Hague calls for patience over Libya SOMETIMES there is both more and less to an announcement than meets the eye. So it was this week when William [...]

Earthshaking disasters, GOP chaos, a royal wedding, bin Laden's burial--and Charlie Sheen. Our tour of 2011's madcap first six months. Usually magazines wait until the end of the year before [...]

Byline: William Schreiber The NATO secretary-general speaks on the significance of the alliance's Libya mission and how bin Laden's death will affect Afghanistan. Britain and France led the way into [...]

Rebels in the western mountains are holding out against Muammar Qaddafi THE rebel in the back seat had long hair, a wild beard, and sang 'The Unforgiven', his favourite tune [...]

Both sides are failing to pump or sell oil, but the rebels are in better shape SOON after mass protests against Colonel Muammar Qaddafi took off, he sought to make [...]

Outsiders had good reason to intervene in Libya. But their cause may suffer from it FOR those who back muscular humanitarian intervention, both the words and deeds of Colonel Muammar [...]

* The descent of the Libyan war into a stalemate almost exactly coincides with our handing the operation over to NATO. The handoff was not the only reason for our [...]

He who attacks may not always win The voters' backing for foreign military adventures does not help the president AS PART of a carefully laid plot to win re-election as [...]

On the morning of March 12th, Osama ben Sadik, a volunteer ambulance driver, arrived for duty at the Red Crescent clinic in Brega, an oil-refinery town in eastern Libya. The [...]

Into the Line of Fire Libyan rebels stealthily invade a compound housing pro-government forces in Misrata, the country's third-largest city, where fighting has raged for days. According to the newspaper [...]

The heat is on Muammar Qaddafi IN A war where the balance of advantage appears to shift from one side to the other almost every day, identifying a turning point [...]

The Undead Chicken Muammar Gaddafi is the undead chicken. Bashar al-Assad of Syria and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain are the unscared monkeys. The United States has [...]

Gaddafi and the rebels are locked in a stalemate. What is the least destructive way out? Reminiscent of World War II, when German and British forces battled each other in [...]

It is vital for Muammar Qaddafi's foes that they hold on to Misrata THE agonies of Misrata, the western rebel-held city that has withstood a bloody siege by Muammar Qaddafi's [...]

The allies are sending out dangerous signs of confusion just when resolution is most needed ONLY five weeks after Western aircraft flew their first sorties over Libya, the fight has [...]

Byline: Jim O'Sullivan POLICY Remain Calm, All Is Well, Sort of The decision by Standard & PoorÇÖs on Monday to score at one in three or better the chances that [...]

PRES. BARACK OBAMA'S reluctant military intervention in Libya followed from a number of logical considerations. First, his administration had been widely criticized for much of 2011 for his contradictory and [...]

Not surprisingly, over the last two weeks President Obama has proven himself a highly ambivalent warrior. Bizarrely, he says he's putting the U.S. military at the service of the U.N. [...]