Pictures emerge online to show militants executing nine people at scene where car bombings took place Benghazi, Khalifa Haftar, UN, Mahmoud al-Werfalli The United Nations Libya mission said it was alarmed by reports of “brutal [ More … ]
Oil industry sources said Libya had lost around 90,000 barrels as a result of the explosion Armed men were responsible for the explosion that damaged a Libyan crude oil pipeline on Tuesday, a military source [ More … ]
Khalifa Haftar, the eastern Libyan military commander whose forces control parts of the country, said that he would listen to the “will of free Libyan people”, in the strongest indication so far that he might [ More … ]
The New Arab has revealed that a number of Egyptian military officers had arrived in Derna’s Lemlodeh military base along with the officers of the forces led by Khalifa Haftar – the commander of Libya’s [ More … ]
The last deadly attack on the police in Egypt’s Western Desert claimed by a new militant group inferred that Egypt’s al-Sisi is incapable of curbing the flow of terrorism that started to expand by opening [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch has urged Libya’s warring factions to investigate civilian deaths in Derna and hold those responsible to account, after unidentified aircraft attacked the eastern city. Human Rights Watch has called for warring factions [ More … ]
Days after media outlets reported the arrival of Khalifa Haftar to Cairo, unknown airstrikes bombed Derna pointing fingers to Egypt’s military to be behind these strikes. The airstrikes killed “15 civilians, mostly women and children, have [ More … ]
Media reported that Libya’s warlord of the so-called Libyan National Army(LNA) Khalifa Haftar arrived in Egypt ‘s Cairo to discuss possible Egyptian airstrikes on Derna and other cities like Ajdabiya. Libya Observer cited the New Arab reporting [ More … ]
MISURATA, Libya Four people were killed and two dozens injured in a suicide bombing in Libya’s northwestern city of Misurata on Wednesday, according to a local medical source. Security forces engaged three gunmen during an [ More … ]
Libya’s navy threatens to seize activists’ boats on migrant rescue missions if they enter its waters unauthorized, following a run-in on Wednesday with a German vessel carrying 52 migrants. Libya’s navy warned it will seize [ More … ]
Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj will visit Khartoum on Sunday for talks with the Sudanese government officials on bilateral relations, the semi official Sudanese Media Center (SMC) announced on Thursday. The head of the of [ More … ]
Europe will be increasingly at risk from terrorists posing as migrants unless western capitals help Libya to stem the numbers crossing the Mediterranean, the country’s prime minister has told The Times. Fayez al-Serraj, head of [ More … ]
The Head of the UN-backed government’s Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Serraj, said lifting the ban on arms purchase and importation to Libya is very imminent so that the army can do its job and secure the [ More … ]
The United States, France and United Kingdom in a joint statement welcomed the Libya National Army (LNA) decision to probe unlawful killings along with its recognition of an ICC arrest warrant for an LNA commander. [ More … ]
Libya’s military commander Khalifa Haftar is due to visit Moscow on Saturday to discuss a peace plan involving a ceasefire and political talks, a Russian official said on Friday. Libya’s military commander General Khalifa Haftar [ More … ]
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