Libya

Q. & A.

Reëxamining Putin’s Military Interventions in the Middle East

Can Russia’s conduct in Syria and Libya predict what’s in store for Ukraine?

By Isaac Chotiner

March 9, 2022

News Desk

A Migrant Prison Officially Closes. But How Much Has Changed?

The order to shutter Al Mabani, a notorious jail set up in Libya to detain migrants bound for Europe, might be seen as progress. But it is also an indication of darker aspects of migrant detention.

By Ian Urbina and Joe Galvin

February 23, 2022

A Reporter at Large

The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe

Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias.

By Ian Urbina

November 28, 2021

News Desk

A Shadow Rebellion in Chad

In Chad, there has never been a change to the Presidency by free or fair election, and its latest rebellion brings into question the West’s approach to the region’s autocratic leaders.

By Ben Taub

February 21, 2019