The Libyan National Army spokesman Ahmed Mismari said that the Libyan National Army (LNA)and the Egyptian Defense Ministry have created an operational headquarters to coordinate airstrikes against Al-Qaeda terrorist group. Since Friday, the Egyptian Air [ More … ]
Egypt has sent “dozens of military personnel” to Libya to back its close ally Khalifa Haftar as Cairo presses ahead with attacks on alleged terrorist training camps in eastern Libya. Egypt has sent “dozens of [ More … ]
As the Egyptian Armed Forces continued its air assaults in Libya, Egyptian army spokesman Tamer al-Rifai said that those attacks were not restricted to the coastal town of Derna but they would target any place where [ More … ]
Derna Shura Council has issued a statement denying involvement in the horrific attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt’s Minya Friday. The statement reads,”It is not our policy to target unarmed civilians in Libya, or in [ More … ]
The Egyptian Armed forces have struck “terrorist training camps” in retaliation for an attack on Coptic Christians, said Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Egypt’s state media said that six strikes hit the town of Derna in [ More … ]
56 Algerians and 400 Moroccans remain in danger after being held in Libya’s al-Nasr detention facility in al-Zawiyah. Libyan coastguards have intercepted more than 450 people at sea attempting to reach Europe’s southern shores using [ More … ]
The US ambassador to Libya has officially backed the UN-endorsed government in Tripoli, as the country countries to remain split between rival factions. The US ambassador to Libya made a fleeting visit to Tripoli on [ More … ]
Forces loyal to General Khalifa Haftar have bombed rival forces in retaliation for a deadly attack on an airbase in the south of the country. The LANA news agency said, “Warplanes launched air strikes overnight [ More … ]
Egyptian Army Chief-of-Staff Mahmoud Hegazy met with General Khalifa Haftar, leader of the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA), in the Libyan port city of Benghazi. The visit is the first of its kind for an [ More … ]
Russia has obviously been interested in Libya, but no one has ever thought that Moscow could intervene in the country’s chaotic civil war by launching cruise missile strikes. Yesterday, media outlets reported that Russia sets off [ More … ]
On the third anniversary of Haftar’s Dignity Operation, being celebrated in eastern cities, that are governed by military rule, journalist and political activist Mansour Abied who abandoned the operation, has crashed the party with heavy [ More … ]
Al-Sisi reiterated Saturday his call for ending the UN-imposed weapons embargo on Libya during talks with Khalifa Haftar in Cairo. Al-Sisi said this was needed so that the Libyan National Army (the forces affiliated with Khalifa [ More … ]
The United Arab Emirates has begun using US-made planes to support Haftar, a Russian-backed general in Libya, Time reported. It also stated that the planes offer fresh evidence of a clandestine proxy war in Libya. But the [ More … ]
The renegade Libyan general Khalifa Haftar has reportedly been offered the role of Libya’s army chief if he supports the UN-backed unity government in Tripoli. Mohamed al-Taher Siala said Haftar, who has waged war on Tripoli, would [ More … ]
Boris Johnson has said the UK will throw its support behind a new peace deal to end fighting in Libya, during a visit to the capital Tripoli. Sarraj,Haftar,Libya,peace deal,Tunisia,UK,Boris Johnson British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson [ More … ]
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