Tunisia’s Example to Libya
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Smoke billows from an area near Tripoli’s international airport as fighting between rival factions around the capital’s airport continues on July 24, 2014. (MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images)In the midst...
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A picture taken in Gaza city on May 11, 2011, shows Libyan state TV showing footage of strongman Muammar Gaddafi in a meeting. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty) The men who gathered around the television...
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Members of the self-styled Libyan National Army, loyal to the country’s east strongman Khalifa Haftar, patrol a street in central Benghazi on July 6, 2017, as they celebrate after retaking the area...
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Migrants wait to be rescued by the Aquarius rescue ship run by non-governmental organisations (NGO) “SOS Mediterranee” and “Medecins Sans Frontieres” (Doctors Without Borders) in the Mediterranean Sea,...
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