published Sep 19th 2016, 4:48 pm, by Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg View) — What looked like a promising U.S.-Russian deal in Syria has collapsed amid mutual recriminations. Throughout the failed truce, Russia behaved as though it didn’t attach much value to it, and it probably doesn’t want an agreement with the

published Jul 4th 2016, 9:26 pm, by Ghaith Shennib and Caroline Alexander (Bloomberg) — The end of a split in Libya’s National Oil Corp. marks a small step toward healing the divided country, but the political stalemate that shut down of most of its crude production is as entrenched as