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A deal to restrict the arrival of migrants and refugees into Italy from Libya was renewed automatically on Saturday.The MoU, signed in February 2017 by Italy and the UN-recognised Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Fayez…

The Libyan Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord has condemned in the strongest terms the "terrorist airstrikes" againt the Interior Ministry's headquarters in Tripoli on last Thursday by Khalifa Haftar's forces.The…

Malta has seized a massive shipment of an unofficial Libyan currency believed to have been destined for Khalifa Haftar who is leading an offensive south of Tripoli.Sources involved in the country’s national security sector confirmed to…

Libya’s coast guard said it had intercepted 200 Europe-bound migrants, including seven women and three children, off the country’s Mediterranean coast. The Libyan coast guard added Thursday that it had rescued two wooden boats carrying…

Jalel Harchaoui, who is a researcher studying Libyan security and politics, tweeted saying that some commentators have been telling the media that Berlin conference on Libya is being delayed because of "Libyans being difficult."…

The ex-Head of High Council of State Abdelrahman Al-Sweihli met Wednesday with the deputy ambassador of the United Kingdom in Libya.Al-Sweihli said on Twitter that he had assured the British diplomat that defeating the attacking forces…

The senior leader at Tariq bin Ziyad Brigade of Khalifa Haftar's forces, Asem Al-Ashibi, has threatened on Facebook a girl from Benghazi of killing one her brothers, asking her to come to his farmhouse in Sidi Faraj in Benghazi.The man…

A parallel central bank in eastern Libya stepped up deliveries of new banknotes from Russia this year, before and after eastern-based Khalifa Haftar launched a military offensive to capture Tripoli, Russian customs data show.The data…

Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is what Albert Einstein called insanity. He refused to believe in the inherent unpredictability of the world. Is the subatomic world insane, or just subtle? He asked…

In a joint press conference in Tripoli, the Libyan Transportation and Interior Ministers Mild Matouq and Fathi Bashagha as well as the UN envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame announced the reopening of Tripoli's only operational airport, Mitiga,…