Libya

South Korea  said Thursday it had deployed a warship to Libya in an apparent show of force to secure the release of a South Korean national kidnapped along with three Filipinos in the North African country.The 4,000-tonne vessel,…

 From 1 July to 31 July 2018, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) documented 8 civilian casualties –three deaths and five injuries – during the conduct of hostilities across Libya.The casualty toll is the lowest on…

Libya’s coast guard picked up 574 migrants from inflatable boats in three operations on Monday off the North African country’s coast, naval forces spokesman Ayoub Qassem told Reuters.He said the migrants included 388 men, 66 women and…

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Monday he was organizing a conference to look for ways to stabilize Libya, a main departure point for migrants from North Africa trying to reach Europe.“In agreement with President…

The House of Representatives (HoR) in eastern Libyan city Tobruk decided to delay voting on the law for the constitution referendum two weeks, tasing the consultations commission to devise a new mechanism for voting that will be…

Sudan’s National intelligence Security Services (NISS) announced on Monday that it had freed a group of Egyptian army soldiers abducted by a Libyan militia on the border between Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. The Egyptian group of four…

The U.N. refugee agency says it is looking into possible violations of international law involving the transport to Libya of 108 migrants rescued at sea by an Italian-flagged mercantile ship.Responding to the suspicions, Interior…

The Manchester suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in May 2017 had been rescued from the civil war in Libya by Britain's Royal Navy just three years earlier.Salman Abedi, who was born in Manchester, was…

 Digital Libya Agency (DLA) revealed that the current chairman of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) Ali Mahmoud has appointed himself a member of the board of directors of the First Energy Bank, which is headed by…

The House of Representatives (HoR) in Tobruk, eastern Libya, has failed to vote on a constitution referendum law.The HoR held a 95-member session on Monday and discussed the articles of the proposed referendum law.Faced with…

Libya has won an international lawsuit against a Turkish company demanding financial compensation of 80 million euros (93.3 million U.S. dollars), said Libya's Justice Ministry's lawsuit department on Sunday.Libya won a lawsuit, at…

The Chairman of Libya’s Constitution Drafting Assembly, Noah Abdelsayed, announced his resignation on Sunday.   He said in a letter sent to the CDA members "I don’t want to continue in my post. Abdelsayed did not give details whether…

The Presidential Council has issued an order dismissing the Defence Minister Mahdi Al-Barghathi from his post.This is breaking news. More details to come from Libyan News.

A thematic meeting on real estate, land and property rights in Libya was organized in Tunis by UNSMIL and UNDP on 9-10 July as part of the project “Towards National Reconciliation in Libya”.The meeting brought together members of…

During the first half of 2018, over 64,000 girls and boys received psychosocial support through community and school-based Child Friendly Spaces, UNICEF reported on Friday.UNICEF said it is working to scale-up its programme of…

For the fifth straight year, at least 1,500 migrants have perished in the Mediterranean, with the route between Libya and Italy being the deadliest, claiming the lives of one in 19, the U.N. migration agency said on Friday.Migrants…

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls for an end to the arbitrary detention of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in Libya after a dramatic increase in the number of people intercepted by the EU-supported Libyan coastguard in the…

An unknown warplane on Wednesday targeted the southern Libyan city of Ubari, some 1,100 km south of the capital Tripoli, killing at least one person, according to a security source."At 20:30 local time (18:30 GMT), an airstrike…

The European Union’s obstruction of nongovernmental rescues and handover of responsibility to Libyan coast guard forces is a recipe for even greater loss of life in the Mediterranean and a continuing cycle of abuse for people trapped in…