It's Libya this week

Want to fly to Tripoli? Here is the passenger terminal there.

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Felicia Schwartz and Tamer El-Ghobashy write in the WSJ:

The U.S. and four of its European allies on Monday condemned escalating violence in Libya and what they called outside interference in the nation's political crisis, in which Islamist militias are battling for control of the capital.

Who is trying to stop the Islamists?

The New York Times reported Monday that twice in the previous seven days, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates launched airstrikes against Islamist-allied militias. The newspaper quoted American officials as saying that in recent months, teams of "special forces" operating out of Egypt had also destroyed an Islamist camp near the eastern Libyan city of Derna.

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