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Libya got their Group E match day-one of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers to a perfect start after beating visiting Seychelles 5-1 on Friday in Cairo.Nigeria and South Africa are the other teams in the group with only the…

More than 900 migrants have been rescued off the coast of Libya during the past 48 hours while trying to reach Italy, the Italian coastguard said on Friday.Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that it saved 716 of the migrants, and…

Qatar dismissed allegations of support for Islamist militancy on Friday after four Arab states, which cut ties with Qatar this week, blacklisted as terrorists dozens of people with alleged links to Qatar, Reuters said.The…

The blacklist of terrorists and terror entities that was issued by the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt naming what they said the names and organisations funded for doing terror work by Qatar included four Libyan names and one…

About 20 air raids have so far taken place in Benghazi down town by the fighter aircraft of Operation Dignity and backing-up foreign warplanes (mainly Egyptian) according to local media reports on Thursday.The airstrikes were…

Former FBI director James Comey on Thursday accused President Donald Trump of firing him to try to undermine the bureau's investigation into possible collusion between his 2016 presidential campaign team and Russia, Reuters reported.…

Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was radicalised while living in the UK two years before his deadly attack, The Libyan Deterrent Force announced.Abedi’s brother Hashem, who was arrested in Tripoli in the wake of last month’s attack,…

The Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, has denied the claims of the leader of Operation Dignity Khalifa Haftar that it had sent fighters to Libya.Khalifa Haftar accused the Gaza-based resistance group of sending members of its…

These days, there is a frantic talk about the Egyptian military intervention in the local Libyan affairs, especially the Egyptian air force striking locations in Derna. Talk about two axes First, the Egyptian intervention is a violation…

Syrian government warplanes struck Islamic State positions west of Raqqa city on the southern bank of the Euphrates river on Thursday, state media said."The air force destroyed positions and armored vehicles" in the western Raqqa…