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Libya's Mitiga  Airport authorities said they had closed the only functional airport in the capital, Tripoli, a day after it was hit by shelling amid clashes between Libyan Army forces under GNA's command and Khalifa Haftar's forces.…

The revenue of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) registered a 23% month-on-month leap to stand at USD2.1 billion during the seventh month of this year.NOC said in a statement that this boost is driven by a hike in the volume of…

Israel's military said on Sunday it fired into southern Lebanon after a number of anti-tank missiles targeted an Israeli military base and army vehicles near the border."A number of anti-tank missiles were fired from Lebanon towards an…

Following another attack on September 01, on Mitiga airport in Tripoli, UNSMIL has condemned in the strongest possible terms this attack, which terrorised passengers and airport staff alike."This attack constitutes a direct threat to…

Khalifa Haftar's forces have targeted Mitiga Airport with heavy artillery shelling overnight, damaging parts of a Libyan Airlines plane and injuring four Libyan hajis (pilgrims).The shelling took place in the early hours of Sunday as a…

The spokesman for Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous Operation Mohammed Al-Ghasri has told Libyan Express that they have depicted movements for ISIS in Garabulli area outside Tripoli.Al-Ghasri said there could be possible infiltration of some ISIS…

About 300 civilians were killed or wounded in recent raids carried out by United Arab Emirates-backed militias in Yemen’s Aden and Abyan provinces, according to Yemeni news reports. Yemen’s SABA news agency cited the country’s human…

The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has said he fears Libya will end up in a "full civil war" unless moves are soon made to end the conflict."Unless action is taken in the near term, it is highly likely that the…

The Trump administration is preparing to initiate direct talks with Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen in an effort to end the four-year-old war, a conflict that has become a volatile front line in the conflict with Tehran, according to…

Turkey Libya's Special Envoy Emrullah Işler said Wednesday that Turkey also chose to take side with the legitimate actor in Libya because it believes in stability and that a political solution that takes into account the demands of the…