Barack Obama called Libya a “shit show” and that it was the “worst mistake” of his presidency. This tidbit is just one of the many facts you'll read about in The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for ...

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The deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi underscores the gaping power vacuum across Libya since the toppling of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime last year. Fighting groups that battled Gadhafi have ...

In recent days, news of Saudi Arabia’s execution of the Shia leader Nimr al-Nimr, and the diplomatic clashes with Iran that followed, has often been accompanied by an explanation that, in simplified ...

BIN JAWAD/AL-SIDR, Libya—The first artillery rounds landed just as the setting sun threw shadows on this barren stretch of coast. Atop an earthen observation berm, a young fighter in an oversize flak ...

Washington is facing a long haul as it tries to repair diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia. In an effort to defuse tensions, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Riyadh this week for ...

While Iraq and Syria have been the focus of the coalition fighting the Islamic State, Libya has become a new hotspot for the militant group. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports ...

Saudi Arabia has warned of a “major shift” away from their long-time reliance on the U.S. amid strained relations over concerns like the war in Syria, nuclear negotiations with Iran and turmoil in ...

FREDERIC WEHREY is a Senior Fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has served as an adviser to the United Nations Development Program and to U.S.-led ...

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