And so it is another one of the ongoing intermittent rounds of civil conflict in Libya. What began in the summer of 2014 with the war over control over Tripoli International Airport is ongoing and escalating. True, the belligerent parties are no longer called the Tripoli Islamists, the Misrata Warriors, or the Zintan Militia, as had been the case eight years ago. Their names have changed, as have their slogans and symbols, but the ethnoregional fusion that produces violence and strife has not. There can be no doubt as to whether foreign actors share some responsibility for what has happened to Libya and Iraq before it.

Source: Libya Today August 31, 2022 09:08 UTC