Dr. Jebril El-Abidi

Dr. Jebril El-Abidi
Libyan writer and researcher

Libya and the Army's Popular Mandate

The Libyan people responded positively to Commander of the Libyan National Army Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s call for tasking the army with ruling the country and dissolving the Presidential Council after the Sukheirat Agreement had failed. After large protests broke out in major Libyan cities, the…

Libya and War in the Time of Coronavirus

Libya and the war in the time of the novel coronavirus have started to sound much like an epic, and have indeed become a very difficult equation for the Libyan National Army on multiple fronts, who now seems to be fighting two enemies at once. The first enemy is obvious and treacherous, and by…

The United Nations and The Libyan Crisis?

Have the United Nations and the mission led by Ghassan Salame in Libya become a part of the Libyan crisis? After a mishandling based on a misreading of the Libyan crisis and Salame becoming involved in serious violations of red lines in Libya, especially after he repeated the same mistakes in his…

Libya, Erdogan, and the Mercenaries

Deporting the “mercenaries” was the pressure card that Erdogan chose to threaten Europe’s security. He had previously threatened Europe with deporting what was left of ISIS to the continent, as part a repeated attempt to blackmail them, and he had already transferred hundreds of Syrian fighters to…