Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj said he will not sit with putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar again, hoping that his supporters would review their decisions. Speaking in a broadcasted interview with Al-Jazeera on Tuesday, the head [ More … ]
Talks fail to deliver ‘serious dialogue’ between warring parties or to persuade both sides to agree to permanent truceWorld powers agreed at a summit in Berlin on Sunday to shore up a shaky ceasefire in [ More … ]
Turkey strives to end the violence in both Idlib and Libya with a political solution, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Wednesday. “Libya is our neighbor through the sea and it is out of question [ More … ]
EU ready to support Berlin process for Libya peace, says top EU officials The European Union’s foreign policy chief and the head of bloc’s parliament Monday welcomed the cease-fire in Libya. “The announcement of a [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin will call for reaching cease-fire in Libya by midnight on Jan. 12, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday. Cavusoglu spoke following a bilateral meeting between [ More … ]
The Egyptian National Action Group has condemned what it called “the coup regime’s attempt to plunge the Egyptian army into the ongoing battles in Libya, with the complicity of some army commanders against the general [ More … ]
Layla Mohammed barely had time to gather her children’s belongings before fleeing their southern Tripoli home when shelling targeted the Libyan capital’s outskirts earlier this year. For months she moved her family between apartments as [ More … ]
Turkish leader’s visit comes as Ankara moves to strike deals with Mediterranean nations Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in Tunisia on a surprise visit for talks with his Tunisian counterpart, Kais Saied, his [ More … ]
The detained pilot Amer Al-Jagam, who was arrested by forces under the command of the Presidential Council’s government as his aircraft got shot down in southern Al-Zawiya, said Russian Wagner Group mercenaries are operating in [ More … ]
The United States is “very concerned” about the intensification of the conflict in Libya, with a rising number of reported Russian mercenaries supporting Khalifa Haftar’s forces on the ground turning the conflict into a bloodier [ More … ]
The US and Europe raise concerns about the escalation in Libya after reports of Russian mercenaries on the ground! Turkey’s parliament on Saturday approved a security and military cooperation deal signed with Libya’s internationally recognised [ More … ]
UAE firm breached UN arms embargo over decommissioned ship, Security Council said, according to the Irish Times. The former Irish Naval Service patrol ship, the LÉ Aisling, was sold to one of the participants in [ More … ]
Few days ago, Libyan Field Martial Khalifa Haftar had announced a “decisive battle” for the capital Tripoli, eight months after he launched an offensive to wrest it from the unity government. “Zero hour has come [ More … ]
Turkey’s maritime boundary delimitation agreement with Libya was sent to the United Nations, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Dec. 7. Erdogan said the deal — already signed by the president — was ratified [ More … ]
In a shattered villa south of the Libyan capital that serves as his field headquarters, a middle-aged militia commander named Mohammed al-Darrat, an engineer in another life, fretted over incoming ordnance, said the Foreign Policy. [ More … ]
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