{
  "id": 13828980,
  "title": "Regime change and the vacuum:Strategic lessons of Iraq and Libya",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/regime-change-and-the-vacuum-strategic-lessons-of-iraq-and-libya",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-11T23:55:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Island Sri Lanka",
    "slug": "the-island-sri-lanka",
    "url": "http://island.lk/regime-change-and-the-vacuumstrategic-lessons-of-iraq-and-libya/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "by Col. (R) Nalin Herath There is a question that the international community must periodically ask itself: What happens to a State after its regime has been ousted? The question is particularly relevant when examining Iraq and Libya. Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were authoritarian rulers. Their governments were associated with political repression, human-rights violations […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}