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The commander of Operation Dignity forces in eastern Libya, Khalifa Haftar, is going to meet with the Head of the Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Serraj, for a second time under the auspices of the UAE's Foreign Minister Abdullah Ben Zayed…

4100 illegal immigrants were rescued off Libya's coast on Wednesday, the Libyan Coast Guard said on Thursday.The Libyan Coast Guard added that it had coordinated 20 operations.On Wednesday, Italian Prime Minister, Paolo…

A delegation from the Turkish firm, Enka, responsible for building and operating the Ubari gas power plant in southern Libya arrived in Ubari to do tests on the operation and finishing up stages of the workers in the field.The…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Iraqi security forces on Thursday of forcibly relocating at least 170 families of alleged Islamic State members to a closed "rehabilitation camp" as a form of collective punishment.Prime Minister…

A suicide bomber rammed a car laden with explosives into a gathering of militant rebels near the rebel-held northwestern Syrian city of Idlib on Wednesday, killing and injuring scores, rebel sources said.They said the blast ripped a…

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ended talks with ministers from Saudi Arabia and three Arab allies on Wednesday over how to end a month-long rift with Qatar, but there was no immediate word of any breakthrough, Reuters reported.…

A Tunisian delegation from the Civil Aviation Authority met with the Chief of the Tripoli-based Mitiga Airport, Lotfi Nasnosh, and had a walk around the facilities of the airport to see if it is secure and ready for the resumption of…

A convoy of refugees began leaving the Lebanese border region for Syria on Wednesday, a security source said, the second group to return under an agreement brokered by the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah.The Lebanese army escorted…

The commander of Operation Dignity in eastern Libya, Khalifa Haftar, has met with the US ambassador to Libya, Peter W. Bodde, and the commander of US AFRICOM, General Thomas D. Waldhauser in Al-Rajma - the headquarters of Haftar's…

The EU's border agency, Frontex, says more people are dying at sea because boats disembarking from Libya are dangerously overloaded, EUObserver reported.Speaking to MEPs on Wednesday (12 July), Frontex executive director Fabrice Leggeri…