Lifting the arms embargo to help the Libyan military fight ISIL would sabotage UN-sponsored peace talks.
![A Libyan soldier monitors a street from his sniper nest in Benghazi [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/6ad9b5d27e0345f2bc11ecec3468e626_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Claudia Gazzini is Crisis Group's senior analyst for Libya. Before joining Crisis Group in 2012, Claudia worked for the Associated Press in Rome and f... or Reuters in Jakarta. She was Max Weber fellow at that European University Institute in Fiesole (Florence) and visiting fellow at the Program of African Studies at Northerwestern University (IL).
Lifting the arms embargo to help the Libyan military fight ISIL would sabotage UN-sponsored peace talks.