Libya Stands at the Brink of More Fighting

Libya Stands at the Brink of More Fighting

As September began, Libya’s fractured post-Qadhafi political architecture stood at the precipice of renewed armed conflict as the UN-backed, Tripoli-based administration (Government of National Unity, GNU) of Prime Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh sought to exert a monopoly of armed force in western Libya. Past post-Qadhafi armed conflicts in the country have pitted the Tripoli administration against a competing power center based in eastern Libya, dominated…