Unlike Libya, in Syria fighters have no base and no cover from a no-fly zone. Libya's government and people have been vocal supporters of Syria's opposition. Tripoli, Libya CNN — ...

President Trump ordered U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities without getting the go-ahead from Congress.

Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi both deservedly acquired reputations as appallingly brutal rulers. Even if the current allegations that Assad’s regime has used ...

Both Libya and Syria have become havens for militants, flooded with weapons and a steady stream of outside fighters. Both have witnessed Islamic hardliners — the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra in ...

Russian military bases in Syria appear to be being packed up and evacuated. If Russia relocates to Libya, experts worry the shift could impact security in the Mediterranean and unbalance the ...

Why Syria Is More Complicated Than Libya To start with, unlike Moammar Gadhafi's regime when the U.S. intervened in Libya in 2011, the Syrian government still has international allies.

Libya descended into chaos after a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed dictator Muammar Gaddafi during the Arab Spring in 2011, the same year Syria’s war began.

In contrast, Syria, like Libya “a country in turmoil,” “does not answer questions,” she told a forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think-tank.

Most of the Syrian fighters in Libya have been hired by Turkey, which sponsors militias inside Syria opposed to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The Syrian regime’s brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters didn’t trip the same alarm bells as Libya’s did for the UN Security Council, but the international community is gradually losing ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump has long sought to avoid confronting the leaders of Turkey and Russia — two foreign strongmen who are facing off in civil wars in Syria and Libya. But after an ...