United Nations — Perhaps no major political or humanitarian disaster is as overlooked as the ongoing crisis in Libya. For example, although the New York Times in September 2017 published a total of seven articles mentioning Libya, only one of them touched on the violence ripping it apart. Even the Times' gesture merely highlighted the latest permutation of the US government's foreign military decisions.
The article, by Eric Schmitt, cited the Pentagon's Africa Command and stated that the United States military had carried out a half-dozen "precision strikes" on an Islamic State training camp in Libya, killing 17 militants in the first American air strike in "the strife-torn North African nation" since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president.
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