Search for: "TRIPOLIE S WELLS" Results 41 - 60 of 143
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
11 Apr 2017, 9:55 am by J. Dana Stuster
-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has little authority outside of Tripoli—but there appears to be some competition for the post. [read post]
There is no doubt that Italy has committed grave mistakes in the past, as well as more recently. [read post]
15 Dec 2016, 11:30 am by Frederica Saini Fasanotti
In both Tripoli (and the western region of Tripolitania more broadly) and Benghazi (Cyrenaica)—which disagree on just about everything—many are welcoming Trump’s election, convinced that it can yield new benefits. [read post]
17 Oct 2016, 12:47 pm by Quinta Jurecic
-backed government seized a government building in Tripoli and demanded the formation of a new government, Reuters reports. [read post]
16 Sep 2016, 5:04 am by Ellen Scholl
Hifter’s forces are allied with the eastern parliament, based in Tripoli, and many assume Hifter is trying to use the facilities as leverage in negotiating his future role in the country. [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 1:11 pm by Rishabh Bhandari
But the United States and other Western nations have called on Hifter’s forces to withdraw from the terminals, saying the Tripoli-based government is the “sole steward” of Libya’s natural resources. [read post]
13 Sep 2016, 8:00 am by Frederica Saini Fasanotti
But U.N. sanctions against Tripoli had already taken a huge toll on Russia: It lost more than $4 billion due to, for example, the cancellation (a few days before the resolution was implemented) of a 600-million euro contract for the supply of anti-missile systems, as well as the indefinite postponement of the agreement for Russian Railways to build a Sirte-Benghazi high-speed railway. [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 8:43 am by Beverly Milton-Edwards
Sequestered in the Abu Sitta naval base in Tripoli, its governance orders and strictures largely fell on deaf ears as divisions within and across Libya’s regions fissured even deeper. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 7:10 am by Darren E. Tromblay
Throughout the Cold War – and even before – the Soviet Union (which established the intelligence apparatus that Russia inherited) and China as well as smaller states such as Cuba all skirted direct conflict and instead employed covert attacks on U.S. sovereignty. [read post]
28 Aug 2016, 7:16 am by Paul Salem
While Hezbollah’s armed presence in Lebanon, as well as its heavy involvement in Syria, continue to be the main bone of contention between Lebanon’s main factions, that contention has steered away from armed confrontation and back into the political arena. [read post]
13 Jul 2016, 10:18 am by Ellen Scholl
However, all the actors can well remember how quickly a friendship can become fraught, and it remains to be s [read post]
8 Jul 2016, 12:44 pm by Frederica Saini Fasanotti
Given this, in late April Serraj asked the international community to intervene in order to secure oil wells, theoretically protected by Jadran Ibrahim and his Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG), a powerful allied militia in Tripoli. [read post]
17 May 2016, 1:07 pm by Caitlin Gilligan, Cody M. Poplin
Other Shiite dominated areas including Sadr City, Habibiya, and Dora faced deadly attacks on Tuesday as well, bringing the death toll to 69 for the day. [read post]
6 Apr 2016, 12:59 pm by Elina Saxena
  After the GNA arrived in Tripoli last week, Agence France-Presse writes that the "UN-backed unity government moved to cement control over the country's finances and institutions [...] after the rival administration in Tripoli ceded power in a boost to efforts to end years of chaos. [read post]
1 Apr 2016, 1:33 pm by Alex R. McQuade
 Al Jazeera reports that “the leaders arrived at the base by ship from neighboring Tunisia on Wednesday in a high-risk effort to take power, after opponents prevented them from flying in by closing down Tripolis airspace. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 12:29 pm by Alex R. McQuade, Cody M. Poplin
” The Wall Street Journal reports that Libya’s parliament rejected a United Nations-sponsored unity government with rival authorities in Tripoli, delivering a major blow to a months-long effort to bridge the political divide and potentially undermining the fight against Islamic State militants once again. [read post]