A child's cloth doll, with yarn hair and red and gingham clothing, rests amid the rubble in Derna, Libya. After the 2011 France-owned and NATO-led overthrow of the Libyan government and subsequent civil war, Libya turned into what political analysts refer to as a failed state. A family of four, including children, stand on a hill as they look toward the destroyed city of Derna, Libya, with the sea on the horizon. El Hardi kneels next to his dog Rock, amid tangled piles of rubble, water, and some intact buildings, during their search in Derna, Libya. “We’ll start digging here.”

Source: Libya Today September 18, 2023 16:32 UTC