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Rebel fighters at positions outside Brega, Libya, show their support for the opposition and their enthusiastic belief that they will overthrow the government in Tripoli, March 10, 2011. Credit: Voice of America.

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News

New museums in Libya reflect war experience (1-30-12)

Libya's other wealth: Archaeological treasures (9-3-11)

Nations Hope Veil Lifts From Libya’s History of Terrorism (8-29-11)

Fear for Libya’s Roman ruins (6-15-11)

Libya Effort Is Called Violation of War Act (5-25-11)

Libya 1911: How an Italian pilot began the air war era (5-9-11)

Tribes may be the key to Libya's future (3-2-11)

Historian: Libya a "wild card" (2-27-11)

Commentary: Historians

Juan Cole: Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect (9-13-12)

Victor Davis Hanson: Storming Embassies, Killing Ambassadors, and ‘Smart’ Diplomacy (9-12-12)

Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica: If the U.S. Is The World's Fireman, Who Rebuilds The Burned-Out Neighborhoods? (7-10-12)

Interview with Juan Cole on Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Tunisia [VIDEO] (1-7-12)

Life after Gaddafi Isn't Going to be Easy (10-31-11)

Obama's Misplaced Mideast Optimism (10-31-11)

Juan Cole: Qaddafi's People's Temple (10-23-11)

Victor Davis Hanson: Lessons from Libya? (10-21-11)

Andrew Roberts: How Dictators Die (10-21-11)

Daniel Pipes: Muammar Qaddafi: A Retrospective (9-6-11)

Max Boot: Did Libya Vindicate 'Leading From Behind'? (9-1-11)

Niall Ferguson: After the Fall of Gaddafi (8-28-11)

Max Boot: Obama's Step Forward on Libya (7-19-11)

Victor Davis Hanson: War in Libya: Dumb and Dumber (7-14-11)

Joyce Appleby: Founding Fathers Could Have Predicted Libya (7-3-11)

Jonathan Tremblay: Libya - Civil War Amongst the Roman Ruins (6-16-11)

Ibrahim Al-Marashi: Whose Truth? Competing Narratives in Syria and Libya (4-27-11)

Dirk Vandewalle: Libya’s Divisions (4-17-11)

Victor Davis Hanson: Yes, Libya Is Not Iraq (4-13-11)

Tariq Ali: Libya is Another Case of Selective Vigilantism by the West (3-29-11)

Juan Cole: An Open Letter to the Left on Li bya (3-27-11)

Matt Jacobs: What Can Air Power Achieve? From Rolling Thunder to Odyssey Dawn (3-27-11)

Jeffrey Herf: Why Germany was Against the Libya Intervention (3-24-11)

Juan Cole: Top Ten Ways that Libya 2011 is Not Iraq 2003 (3-22-11)

Michael Lind: The False Defenders of Obama's War in Libya (3-21-11)

Max Boot: It's Not Too Late to Save Libya (3-16-11)

Daniel Pipes: Back to the Shores of Tripoli? (3-10-11)

Victor Davis Hanson: Libya without Gaddafi (3-3-11)

Juan Cole: 90% of Libya in Rebel Hands (2-24-11)

Dirk Vandewalle: Is This Libya's New Revolution? (2-21-11)

Commentary: Media

Ty McCormick: Why the Embassy Attacks Aren't 1979 All Over Again

(9-12-12)

Lindsey Hilsum: Islam's History Faces Threat from Within (9-5-12)

Paul Rogers: Pan Am 103 ... Libya and A Case Unclosed (5-24-12)

Clare Morgana Gillis: The End of History in the New Libya (5-23-12)

Benedetta Berti, Gonca Noyan, Hristiana Grozdanova and Jelena Petrovic: The Balkan Route ... Security Sector Reform in Libya (3-27-12)

Robert Kaplan: Libya, Obama and the Triumph of Realism (8-28-11)

Michael Tomasky: Obama a Great Foreign Policy President (8-23-11)

Barak Barfi: Libya’s Greatest Advantage? The Modest Expectations of the Libyan People (8-23-11)

Steve Richards: History Repeats Itself in Libya (8-2-11)

Jonah Goldberg: Libya and America's Commitment Problem (6-21-11)

Joshua E. Keating: A Wilsonian Move by the White House in Libya (7-15-11)

Nicolas Pelham: The Battle for Libya (4-7-11)

Richard Haass: Bleak history lessons for Libya's future (3-27-11)

Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou: WIll Libya End Up Like Iraq? (3-19-12)

Doug Bandow: Libya's Lesson for Europe (3-16-11)

Eric Trager: Do Egyptians Want to Invade Libya? (3-9-11)

Khaled Mattawa: Rising to Shake off the Fear in Libya (3-2-11)

Henry Srebrnik: Arab Awakening Arrives in Libya (2-21-11)