Libya

Senior U.S. officials met with General Khalifa Haftar on last Sunday to discuss steps to achieve a suspension of hostilities and a political resolution to the Libyan conflict, the Department of State has reported. The officials…

Khalifa Haftar's forces, trying to seize Tripoli from the UN-backed Government of National Accord, shot down a U.S. military drone over the capital by mistake last week, officials from Haftar's forces said on Monday, The Associated Press…

The Head of the Libyan High Council of State (HCS) Khalid Al-Mishri has told Arabi 21 website that Khalifa Haftar is being funded and supported, in his war on Tripoli, by four local parties, especially the Moammar Gaddafi regime figures and…

Libya's UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) on Sunday warned east Libyan forces under the command of Khalifa Haftar against imposing a "no-fly zone" over western Libya.On Saturday, the spokesman for forces led by Khalifa…

Libya's east-based forces  under the command of Khalifa Haftar announced Sunday a no-fly zone over western Libya; all around Tripoli, where fighting has been raging on for almost eight months. "We declare a no-fly zone (in western…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Friday with Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates to discuss Russian military presence in Libya."Secretary Pompeo and Foreign Minister Al Nahyan discussed…

The US President Donald Trump administration officials have had multiple meetings with former Libyan UAE ambassador, Aref Al-Nayed, who is aligned with Khalifa Haftar, hinting that the American administration may be rethinking its Libya…

The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on Friday it has lost contact with a drone over the Libyan capital Tripoli."An unarmed U.S. Africa Command remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) was lost over Tripoli, Libya, Nov. 21," AFRICOM said in a…

67 migrants have drowned after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea near Libya's northwestern coast, according to Italian media.A fisherman reported the incident to Alarm-Phone-Initiative, a self-organized hotline for refugees…

The Head of the Libyan High Council of State (HCS) Khalid Al-Mishri met Wednesday with the Italian ambassador to Libya Giuseppe Puccini in Tripoli.The meeting discussed the ongoing developments in political and military fields and the…

The commander of the military intelligence authority at Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous Operation of the Government of National Accord, Mohammed Ganeedi, said there are efforts to form a "war government" in central and western Libya, adding that it…

On their “Travel Risk Map,” medical and security experts at International SOS have identified the riskiest countries for travelers in the coming year across categories like medical safety, security and road safety, color-coding countries by…

94 illegal migrants, including four pregnant women, have been rescued by a charity ship off the coast of Libya.The Ocean Viking, operated jointly by SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF),…

The former Libyan Minister of Finance Hussein Ziglam said he backs eastern Libyan locals against Khalifa Haftar, saying Haftar should be imprisoned for his crimes.Ziglam said in a TV interview that Haftar was part of a coup against…

The UN Libya envoy pleaded with foreign actors to honor an arms embargo on the conflict-torn country as he said an attack on a Tripoli factory Monday may amount to a war crime.Ghassan Salame accused unnamed countries of worsening the…

Authorities at Libya's Misurata airport on Sunday seized a Libyan Airlines aircraft operating from Benghazi in the east of the country, the airline's Benghazi management said.The aircraft was seized in the western city of Misrata, east…

An airstrike by Khalifa Haftar's forces has targeted a local factory in Wadi Al-Rabea district in southern Tripoli, killing five foreign workers and injuring over 30 others, according to Burkan Al-Ghadab Operation of the Government of…

The Embassies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the EU Delegation, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom to Libya have expressed their deep concern regarding the continued…

An Egyptian military court sentenced on Sunday a Libyan defendant to death over his involvement in the 2017 terrorist operation in a desert area near the capital Cairo that killed 16 policemen, Egypt's state-run Al-Ahram news website…

The number of mercenaries from Russian Wagner Group headed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, also known as “Putin’s chef” for his Kremlin catering contracts, who arrived at a forward base in Libya in the first week of September to bolster Khalifa…