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An official UK-Libya Trade and Investment Forum was announced today by the UK Middle East Association and the Libyan Investment Authority. The event will be held in London on 14 July.The forum will focus on the immense potential,…

The Tripoli branch of the Libyan Coast Guard intercepted Tuesday a rickety boat filled with 112 illegal migrants off the Libyan coast, rescuing them to safety on Tripoli beaches.The Coast Guard said the 112 migrants were making…

The media bureau of the UN-backed Presidential Council’s Joint Military Room and its forces appointed under the operation dubbed (Albunyan Almarsous) announced that 4 fighters were killed by a land mine of the terrorist groups of ISIS…

Well-informed sources reported that one ISIS militant was killed in Ras Alhilal area in Abu Grein clashes western and southern western Sirte."The terrorist killed was called Belqasim Ali Alshaari." Reported the local sources from…

The Prime Minister of the Salvation Government, Khalifa Al-Ghweil, told the ministers not to obey the orders of the Presidential Council about taking over the work of all state institutions by the GNA ministers.Al-Ghweil said the…

The UN-backed Presidential Council has ordered the ministers of the GNA's cabinet to start working from the official institutions until they are sworn in.This comes while the Head of the PC tries to gather support for the GNA in…

The US Secretary of State has said that his country, Italy and other foreign powers (the 25-member group) had agreed to exempt the Government of National Accord from the UN arms embargo imposed to halt the Libyan conflict.Kerry  …

Sources reported earlier on Monday that there had been an agreement in Vienna talks to resume oil exportation from Al-Hariga port in Tobruk by the Tripoli-based National Oil Corporation.For a couple of weeks or more, Al-Hariga port…

The Italian Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, told reporters that the key to fighting terrorism and waves of migration is to stabilize Libya.In a joint communique with John Kerry and Fayez Al-Serraj following the Vienna talks…

In a press conference following the summit meeting of the world powers and neighbouring countries of Libya, the Head of the UN-backed Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Serraj, said that Libya is going through a very terrible situation.…