Turkey and the EU are trading insults over the rights to exploit the huge gas reserves over the eastern Mediterranean island.
- Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen
The Libyan warlord and presidential hopeful looks likely to avoid a summons to The Hague.
The UN’s latest plan for Libya needs to provide a peace dividend that is felt by the people, not just pay lip service to liberal democracy
The news of Saif al-Islam’s release should be taken with a pinch of salt. During the past six years of warfare in Libya the fabrication of news has become common practice.
As unity talks begin, history tells us the divisions in Cyprus are not simply the result of two competing nationalisms.
Follow the money behind the likes of Transparency International and a picture starts to emerge.
With everything from Islamic State to disenfranchised black Africans to deal with, the former Gaddafi stronghold has everything to achieve.
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