Fighters from Misrata fire weapons at Islamic State militants near Sirte, March 15, 2015.
Jamie Dettmer, VOA: Will Arming Libya’s ‘Unity’ Government Escalate Conflict?
ROME — The focus was how to combat Islamic State militants and halt their unnerving advance in Libya, just a short boat ride from southern Europe. But Western powers’ announcement Monday of their readiness to arm the struggling unity government in Tripoli has gone down badly with a rival government and its militia in the east of the fractious, chaotic country.
Supporters of General Khalifa Haftar – the muscle behind the opposition National Salvation Government – are scorning the Western powers’ decision to support a partial arms ban exemption for the United Nations-negotiated Government of National Accord (GNA).
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- May 17, 2016
Iraq's Shi'ite rivalries risk turning violent, weakening war on Islamic State -- Ahmed Rasheed and Stephen Kalin, Reuters
Is the U.S. Military Strategy Doing More Harm or Good in the Middle East? -- Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., Observer
Legacy of a Secret Pact Haunts Efforts to End War in Syria -- David Sanger, NYT
Six Stubborn, Essential Middle East Truths -- Aaron David Miller, RCW
The Cultural Revolution, Then and Now -- Merriden Varrall, The Interpreter
As Afghan insecurity deepens, can Ghani government fight back? -- Scott Peterson, CSM
We wasted $113B in Afghanistan, no wonder ‘America First’ resonates -- Paul Sperry, New York Post
Kim Jong-un’s Coronation and North Korea’s Future -- Scott A. Snyder, Council on Foreign Relations
Clinton Plans to Use the Iran Playbook on North Korea -- Josh Rogin, Bloomberg
The Strange, Unending Limbo of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak -- Declan Walsh and Nour Youssef, NYT
Will NATO's missile shield spur a new Cold War? -- Inside Story/Al Jazeera
Cold War Theater -- Fred Kaplan, Slate
Venezuela’s Falling Apart and the President Is Sending Troops to ‘Protect’ the People -- Alicia Hernández, VICE News
Angry streets, not recall, may be Venezuela leader's biggest risk -- Alexandra Ulmer, Reuters
Venezuela’s Downward Spiral -- New York Times editorial
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