Journalists in post-Gaddafi Libya are being threatened and even murdered “with impunity” for doing their job, according to a report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW).
After six years of a foreign policy strategy that observers have assessed as questionable at best, Americans and remaining foreign allies finally deserve an honest explanation of President Obama’s true aims across the Middle East. One person who should explain why the Obama Administration continually asserts the United States is making progress abroad despite so many appalling setbacks is senior aide Valerie Jarrett, whose influence shaping key policies is suggested in second-hand reports, but not yet adequately understood.
U.S officials are expressing concern about the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) jihadist group’s expansion into Libya.
Libya’s parliament has suspended a law banning officials who served under Muammar Gaddafi from holding a position in the country’s current administration.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) declared that Senator Lindsey Graham’s foreign policy “has so much confusion in it” on Monday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” Regarding the potential that a rivalry over foreign policy between Graham and Paul could spring up in the
Sen. Rand Paul is criticizing Hillary Clinton for engineering a rush to war in Libya in 2011.
The Washington Times has released several audio recordings of Obama Pentagon officials–and Sen. Dennis Kucinich–who so hated Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s push for war with Libya that they conducted their own clandestine talks with the Moammar Ghadafi regime, undermining Ms. Clinton.
ISIS-linked group takes credit for hotel bombing in Tripoli Libya; Libya’s oil production plummets because of conflict; S&P lowers Russia’s bonds to junk status
In the latest sign of Libya’s descent into chaos, gunmen stormed a luxury hotel used by diplomats and businessmen in the capital on Tuesday, killing 10 people, including an American, a French citizen and three people from Asia.
The government of Libya, a state currently fighting a civil war, has banned all Palestinians, Sudanese, and Syrian nationals from entering their country.
Radical jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia kidnapped twenty Egyptian Christians in Sirte, Libya, which is 310 miles east of Tripoli. Identities were not released, but experts believe they were Coptic Christians.
No one can seriously doubt that the world has become a much more dangerous place in 2014, and so now is a good time to review the most three most important dangers to watch out for in 2015
