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Libya

A general view of Tamanhint air base.

Armed group attacks air base in southern Libya held by LNA

Libya

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) meets Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar (L) at the Ittihadia presidential Palace in the capital Cairo, on April 14, 2019. (AFP)

In talks with Russia and Egypt, Haftar seeks to counter foreign involvement

Libya

Men load ammunition belts at a position held by forces loyal to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) in the suburb of Wadi Rabie about 30 kilometres south of the capital Tripoli on April 12, 2019. (AFP)

Tripoli faceoff pits LNA against militias

Libya

Member of Misrata forces, under the protection of Tripoli's forces, prepares himself to go to the front line in Tripoli Libya. (Reuters)

Presence of Islamist militias in Libya alarms Egypt

Iraqi

Increasingly vocal. Leader of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq militia Qais al-Khazali speaks during an interview in Baghdad, last January.(AP)

Iran wants to rule Iraq without US presence

tunisia

A screengrab from Tunisian channel Mosaique FM shows one of the fourteen Tunisian kidnapping victims upon their return home from Libya. (Youtube)

Tunisians kidnapped in Libya return home after rescue

Stephen Quillen

Iraq

Fighters from the Popular Mobilisation Forces parade in Basra, last September. (AP)

Militias besiege and oppress Iraqis

Bahira al-Sheikhly

Iraq

Friends and relatives of Alaa Mashdhub light candles at his assassination site in Karbala, February 5. (AP)

Iraqi intellectuals alone in the face of assassinations

Iraq

Iraqi writers and intellectuals shout slogans and raise banners showing the portrait of slain novelist Alaa Mashdhub in Baghdad’s central Tahrir square, February 6. (AFP)

Slain Iraqi novelist criticised foreign meddling, militias