Libya

The current Chairman of Watan Political Party in Libya, Abdel Hakim Belhaj and his wife, Fatima Bouchar, who were victims of a joint MI6-CIA “rendition” operation, have been plunged into a Kafkaesque nightmare by the attempt to have…

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…

According to local media sources in Libya, the UN is expected to appoint a new Head for the UNSMIL to replace Martin Kobler.According to the sources, the potential new envoy to Libya is probably Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the current…

The Libyan eastern ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Abdelbasit Al-Badri, said the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) wants to file a lawsuit against Qatar at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for what he said the crimes it…

The foreign ministers of Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt will hold a tripartite meeting on Monday and Tuesday here to discuss the situation in Libya, an Algerian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Sunday, Xinhua reported."This meeting is…

African migrants suffocated in van parked nearby Tripoli beach inside a van on the road nearby Garabulli beach, a suburban area outside Tripoli, Tripoli Illegal Immigration Interception Department's teams revealed on Sunday.The van…

Heavy clashes erupted between two militias in the city of Al-Zawiya in northwestern Libya Saturday night, according to sources from the city.The clashes broke out after two members of one militia were killed by gunfire in front of…

1296 Nigerians were repatriated from Libya between January and May this year.According to the figures released, yesterday, by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) during a stakeholders round table on irregular…

Sudanese Army officials announced that they deployed forces on the triangle border crossing between Sudan, Libya and Egypt.On the official website of the Sudanese Army Forces, they said Sudan's military forces were deployed in the…

France's foreign ministry said on Friday security conditions were still not right to reopen its embassy in Libya despite a claim by the prime minister of a United Nations (UN)-backed government there that Paris wanted to restore its…

A woman from Holland, Yvonne Snijter, is missing in Libya's capital Tripoli, according to numerous reports and calls for help from friends on social media.The woman was last seen on Friday in a cafe in the old town of the capital…

In August 2014 Canadian Salim Alaradi was abducted by United Arab Emirates State Security personnel and subjected to enforced disappearance, solitary confinement and torture in a secret prison before being transferred and arbitrarily…

UK has itself to blame for the Manchester attack because it colluded with jihadists and left a power vacuum in Libya, according to the son of the Lockerbie bomber.Khaled al-Megrahi, the son of the man convicted of blowing up Pan Am…

The Egyptian military forces have been deployed on the borders with Libya and Sudan in Jabal Al-Awinat district in order to deter any terrorists' infiltration, according to London-based Al-Hayat Newspaper.The Egyptian army will be…

More than 1,400 migrants seeking to get to Italy were rescued off the coast of Libya on Friday, but other vessels were in distress, according to accounts by Libyan and Italian officials."Large rescue and interception operations are…

The Head of the United Nations refugee agency on Sunday urged Libyan authorities to free all asylum seekers and refugees from its detention centres as he visited Tripoli."I hope first of all that asylum seekers and refugees can be taken…

The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez Al-Serraj, met on Sunday with the US President, Donald Trump, on the margins of the Arab-Islamic-American summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.During the meeting,…

Libya on Thursday asked Italy to arm the patrol boats it uses in the fight against illegal immigration across the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe, the Local It reported.Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti this week…