Middle East and North Africa

Will Libya turn into another Afghanistan?

They said Iraq and Afghanistan would be over in days. But a million died and a civilisation collapsed. We don't want to see the same in Libya, says Turkish prime minister Erdogan.

Cutting libraries to pay for yet another war

David Cameron says Britain is so much in debt that welfare benefits to the poorest and most vulnerable in society must be slashed to the bone, but there's still enough to wage foreign wars.