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 … ]
A memorandum on maritime boundaries in the eastern Mediterranean Sea is important to secure Libya’s natural resources, the country’s High Council of State said Tuesday. Libya’s UN-recognized government has a right to sign memoranda with [ More … ]
U.S. officials appealed to a renegade Libyan commander in recent talks to forgo what they said would be a destructive offensive into the capital, Tripoli, a senior official said, signaling the Trump administration’s heightened focus [ More … ]
The Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, mounted three airstrikes on the ‘military section’ of Mitiga airbase. The strikes hit their targets with high precision, the LNA said. Further, the Volcano [ More … ]
The Libyan Army forces under the command of the Government of National Accord (GNA) has conducted an all-out offensive on Khalifa Haftar’s forces in southern Tripoli frontlines and Souq Al-Khamis Imsahel, while carrying out airstrikes [ More … ]
The Interior Ministry of Libya’s internationally-recognized Government of National Accord called upon the UN Security Council this week to pass resolutions banning the bombing of civilian facilities. The move follows repeated attacks by forces loyal [ More … ]
Drones from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) participated in an attack by East Libya-based forces on government troops in Gharyan city, south of Tripoli, a Libyan military commander said. This week, forces loyal to military [ More … ]
The forces under the command of Khalifa Haftar have started a large-scale attack on Gharyan in an attempt to retake the city that they have lost to the forces under the command of the Government [ More … ]
After fierce clashes in and around Naqliya Camp on the Airport Road in southern Tripoli between Libyan Army forces under the command of the Libyan Presidential Council and forces under the command of Khalifa Haftar, [ More … ]
An air strike hit a detention center for mainly African migrants in a suburb of the Libyan capital Tripoli late on Tuesday, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 130, the United Nations [ More … ]
The day after the battle for the Libyan town of Gharyan, burnt-out cars were flipped on the side of the highway and only a few shop owners opened their doors to see if they could [ More … ]
Six Turkish citizens held by illegal militia loyal to East Libya-based commander Khalifa Haftar Turkish Foreign Ministry on Sunday expected immediate release of six Turkish citizens held by East Libya-based commander Khalifa Haftar forces. “Holding [ More … ]
Libyan government fighters discovered a cache of powerful American missiles, usually sold only to close American allies, at a captured rebel base in the mountains south of Tripoli this week, according to the New York [ More … ]
Forces allied to Libya’s internationally recognized government seized the town of Gharyan south of Tripoli, home to the main supply base of eastern forces attacking the capital, witnesses and Tripoli officials said. The takeover of [ More … ]
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