The assassination of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi highlights Libya's ongoing power struggles and failure to establish a stable government 15 years post-revolution.
The death of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the former long-serving Libyan dictator, marked the closure of one of the last chapters of the 2011 Libyan revolution. He was killed under unclear circumstances by unknown assailants in his home in Zintan, raising questions about the security and political dynamics in Libya. Saif al-Islam had long represented an alternative future for the country but fell out of favor after his father's regime was overthrown; he lived on the margins of a divided Libya as a political shadow, with a name that invoked both the prospect of a return to order and the threat of further destabilization.
