The heady days of the revolution of 2011 - which unseated long-lasting ruler Muammar Gaddafi - are a distant memory. In the ensuing years there has been a Libyan version of the TV series Game of Thrones, about savage force battles, including contending local armies, rival governments and, progressively, outside players
Protesters in Tobruk have taken over a state security building, while victims of Benghazi violence are mourned
Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi ruled for 42 years, driving Libya to a critical development in social, political and financial issues that were perceived and appreciated by numerous African and Arab countries at that point. Notwithstanding his disputable government, Gaddafi came to speak to a significant figure for hostile to radical battles for his position mostly against the U.S. furthermore, the strategies did from Washington on the Middle East.
The citizen protests that began in Tunisia in December 2010 (Arab Spring) showed up a month later in neighbouring Libya, in spite of the fact that in an alternate manner, as the mass and famous exhibits that portrayed Tunisia and Egypt were not imitated. In contrast, in Benghazi, where the anti-Gaddafi movement focused, Islamists groups predominated.
Some political analysts agree that in Libya there was never a mass movement on a national scale like the other countries, nor was there popular support to overthrow Gaddafi's government.
However, the uprisings in Benghazi were enough for the U.N. Security Council and NATO to intervene on behalf of the Responsibility to Protect (Resolution 1973) and launched a bombing campaign between March and October 2011 that had a decisive impact on the assassination of Gaddafi.
Libyans take pictures with their mobile phones of the body of Muammar Gaddafi near Sirte on October 20, 2011. (MAHMUD TURKIA, AFP/Getty Images)
Nine years after his death, residents in the chaos-wracked country's capital have grown to miss the long-time leader as the frustrations of daily life mount.
"I hate to say it but our life was better under the previous regime," Fayza al-Naas, a 42-year-old pharmacist told AFP in 2015, referring to Gaddafi's rule. A sentiment shared by many Libyans, including those who opposed him at some point.
Some of the key issues Libya is confronting today started in the days and months that followed Gaddafi's death. Firstly, was an inability to set up reasonable designs for a post-Gaddafi Libya with respect to both the transitional government that had controlled the "liberated" portions of Libya since the uprising started and NATO accomplices, who did many airstrikes that switched things around of the Libyan revolution
Another key issue which despite everything plagues Libya today, was the strengthening of state army gatherings.
During the uprisings, rebel contenders had worked with close complete exemption as new pioneers chose not to see torment, plundering and the execution of detainees.
In the year that followed Gaddafi's death, the individuals who battled on the previous Libyan pioneer were put being investigated and much of the time accused of homicide, regardless of whether they'd just killed in fight.
In the meantime, those blameworthy of war violations from the triumphant side strolled free, in any event, accepting places of intensity now and again.
The economically and socially stable Libya under the Gaddafi versus a fragmented country, without a government, devastated by attacks, bombings, and continuous clashes, is the result of the NATO invasion in 2011. A conclusion that many regret supporting almost a decade later.
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