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A U.S.-based think tank says satellite imagery shows that a strategic Syrian air base used by Russia has been “severely damaged” in an artillery attack.Stratfor said on May 24 that four Russian Mi-24 attack helicopters appear to…

The Italian La República newspaper revealed Tuesday that there are 40 Italian soldiers and marines in Binina airbase in Benghazi and they are fighting along with Khalifa Haftar's forces.The Italian newspaper said the soldiers are…

The Head of the Presidential Council of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez Al-Serraj has arrived earlier in Istanbul, Turkey.Al-Serraj was received in the Conferences Palace in Istanbul by the Turkish…

Italy's ships have rescued more than 2,600 migrants from boats bound to Europe from Libya in the last 24 hours, the Coast Guard said on Monday, clarifying that the numbers of migrants are rising as the weather warms up.Some 2,000…

A shootout in the restive Sinai province has left 13 militants dead, said an Egyptian army spokesman on Tuesday.The army had conducted "successful preemptive strikes against terrorist elements", said the spokesman.As many as 30…

Libyan Coast Guard said its personnel haveintercepted about 550 illegal immigrants trying to reach Europe by boat on Tuesday, the second time in three days they have intercepted migrants in the same area.The western region's Coast…

Leader of the so-called Dignity Operation (Karama) Khalifa Haftar ,arrived in Cairo to meet political and military officials, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported Monday.The newspaper said Haftar’s visit “aimed to coordinate efforts” with…

The Vice President of the Presidential Council, Abdelsalam Kajman, said Tuesday the GNA’s Prime Minister and PC’s Prime Minister, Fayez Al-Serraj, is finishing up a decision to order the GNA’s ministers to take office in the ministries’…