Libya

The US ambassador to Libya, Peter Bodde, said Thursday marks his last day serving as the Chief of Mission of U.S. Embassy Libya. "As I return to retirement, I am struck and saddened by the deepening divide that is undermining prospects…

Khalifa Haftar’s fifty-day assault on Libya's Tripoli, so far, has stalled and he can’t take the city, according to the Russian special envoy to Libya, Lev Dengov, told Bloomberg Tuesday.Dengov said Haftar's attack failure was…

The Head of the Libyan Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sirraj arrived in Algeria on Thursday and met with the President Abdelkader bin Saleh and a number of officials.The media office of Al-Sirraj said the discussions were about the…

Jordan has stepped in into the ongoing fighting on the outskirts of Tripoli as evidence has proved it has provided an unknown number of its indigenous KADDB Al-Mared 8×8 armoured vehicle to Khalifa Haftar’s forces. The delivery of the…

The member of the High Council of State (HCS) Ahmed Langi said the Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sirraj met in Tunisia on Wednesday with a number of delegates coming from Cyrenaica region and  all voiced rejection to the attack…

Khalifa Haftar, speaking on Wednesday with French President Emmanuel Macron, ruled out a ceasefire.Reuters reported that Haftar told Macron that he wanted to rid the capital of militias that had “infested” the U.N.-backed…

The Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha met with the French ambassador Beatrice de Helene in Tunisia and discussed mutual cooperation in security, anti-terrorism, corruption and money laundering.The meeting on Tuesday also reviewed…

Reports from Paris have confirmed that Khalifa Haftar has arrived to meet with the French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the ongoing fighting in Tripoli.According to the reports, Haftar and Macron are meeting Wednesday afternoon…

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wants unity of the Security Council on the issue of Libya, his spokesman said Tuesday.Asked at a regular press briefing what the secretary-general thinks the Security Council needs to do…

The National Oil Corporation (NOC) has said that it is increasingly concerned about the state of lawlessness in Libya stemming from the ongoing conflict, and its impact on oil sector operations."A security inspection this week of…

The Representative of Libya at the UN Security Council Al-Mahdi Al-Majirbi told member states that Khalifa Haftar's "agression against Tripoli" has ended the hopes of all Libyans to go to elections and build a civilian state. Al-Majirbi…

The United Nations' envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame has briefed the Security Council about the ongoing fighting in Tripoli, urging the member states to enforce a ceasefire in Tripoli outskirts before the war spills into the city and a…

Water supplies to residents of Tripoli and other western region cities have been restored two days after being cut off by gunmen loyal to Khalifa Haftar, calling for release of a relative of their detained by Special Deterrence Force in…

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator, Maria Ribeiro, condemns in the strongest terms the shutting down of water supplies that aims to deprive hundreds of thousands of already embattled Libyans of safe drinking water.“Such attacks against…

The elders and dignitaries of Zintan in Libya have voiced rejection to the attack led by Khalifa Haftar on Tripoli, saying they support the Government of National Accord (GNA) and its Burkan Al-Ghadab Operation. The Zintan statement…

Officials working for international organizations and institutions have visited Tunisia's border areas with Libya to evaluate the resources available ahead of the potential arrival of refugees fleeing armed clashes in Libya.…

Water supplies have been cut off in Tripoli and some cites in central and western Libya after an armed group attacked the Man-made River pipelines and forced workers to block their velves."The department for the Man-Made River…

44 members of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) in Tobruk rejected in a statement on Sunday the UN-brokerd Political Agreement signed in Morocco's Skhirat resort in December 2015.The members added in the statement that all…

The UAE’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said on The National Saturday that high on his country's agenda at present is Libya where Europe, the UAE and like-minded regional states have a common interest."Neither…

Libyan oil production currently stands at almost 1.3mn b/d, but ongoing regional hostilities could put the majority of this output at risk, Chairman of NOC Mustafa Sanalla said Saturday. "Unfortunately if the situation will continue…