UN has proposed second round of negotiations for 18 February The U.N.-sponsored peace talks between Libya’s internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) and putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar this week ended on Saturday without reaching [ More … ]
German Foreign Minister Maas urges UN Security Council members to adopt resolution to enforce cease-fire, arms embargo Germany on Monday urged UN Security Council members to adopt a resolution on Libya to stop continuing military [ More … ]
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 … ]
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin calling the warring parties in Libya to a ceasefire was immediately accepted by the legitimate Tripoli government, while the belligerent Khalifa Haftar administration at first [ 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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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