Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 06/2014

Libya's Growing Risk of Civil War

Andrew Engel

May 2014

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

Long-simmering tensions between non-Islamist and Islamist forces have boiled over into military actions centered around Benghazi and Tripoli, entrenching the country's rival alliances and bringing them ever closer to civil war.