Libya

The treasurer of Nicolas Sarkozy’s successful 2007 run for the French presidency has been charged as part of an investigation into suspected illicit financing of the campaign with Libyan money, his lawyer said Tuesday.Eric Woerth,…

The Libyan parties under the auspices of the UN, intentional community and hosted in Paris by Emmanuel Macron, agreed on finalizing the constitution laws and adopting it by September 16 this year and holding presidential and…

Libya has won two international lawsuits against a Portuguese company and a Lebanese one respectively, demanding financial compensation totaling 88 million Euros (102 million U.S. dollars).The justice ministry's lawsuit department…

The International Crisis Group has sated that France’s decision to host Libya’s main political and military leaders on 29 May is both audacious and risky.In a a lengthy briefing on Monday, the group explained that if France pulls…

Libya's Tripoli-based Al-Ittihad players were beaten before playing Al-Ahli Benghazi at Benina stadium on Sunday.The team withdrew from the match of the fourth round of the quartet final round of the Libyan Football League and the…

Libya's eastern-based self-styled army on Sunday announced maximum security alert over possible terrorist attacks on oil ports and fields.The information office of the army's gulf military zone said in a statement that an order to…

The High Council of State (HCS) has decided in a meeting in Tripoli for its members to go to Paris and attend the French-brokered international conference.The agreement on attendance came in a statement following the internal voting…

The Italian ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Perrone, tweeted Sunday that chaotic and too many initiatives in Libya could lead to more death boats, referring to growing illegal immigration crisis via the Libyan coast into Italy.He…

The Libyan dinar has sharply dropped in value on Sunday starting in a hike from 6.60 on Friday to 7.75 per one US dollar on Sunday at the black market. The Libyan dinar to US dollar exchange rates at the central bank are still at…

Libya stakeholders have been invited by the French President Emmanuel Macron to be at the Elysée palace in Paris on Tuesday for an international conference that aims to pave the way for elections that could be held in Libya by the…

A reliable source told Libyan News on Saturday that the delegation of Misurata city has rejected attending the upcoming international conference on May 29 in Pairs that France said would aim to break Libyan political stalemate. The…

More than 100 east African migrants escaped from a camp in the Libyan town of Bani Walid where they were being held hostage and tortured, international agencies and local sources said on Saturday, May 26.The migrants from Eritrea,…

Social media pages and local Libyan social media activists have both similarly reported that the Halbous Brigade, Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade and Ghaniwa Brigade in Tripoli, which are under the Presidential Council control, have…

Photos and videos circulated on social media showed a car bomb explosion that took place at Jamal Abdelnasser Street in Benghazi. Al-Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi confirmed the explosion and said it has so far received over 6…

A fighting in Ras Hassan street in Tripoli, Libya's capital, left two men killed after Iftar on Thursday. The spokesman for the Special Deterrence Force Ahmed Salim told local news that their security personnel interfered in the…

The humanitarian coordinator at the UNSMIL, Maria Ribeiro, said in a statement on Thursday that the humanitarian community in Libya is perturbed by the continued lack of humanitarian access and subsequent assistance into Derna despite…

Libyan officials in the governments climbing to power since 2012 until 2017 have authorized spending over 277 billion Libyan dinars in the central bureaus except the eastern government "Interim Government" which spent in east Libya 21…

The President of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, says the ban on international football matches in Libya will be lifted soon.“The head of the presidential council (of the government) Fayez Sarraj, has received an official letter from FIFA…

Libya's National Oil Corporation shipped its first cargo of propane from Zueitina port, four years after the gas processing plant at the port was closed due to protests, the company said late Wednesday.NOC said on its website it…

France said it is going to hold an international meeting in Paris with Libyan political leaders to push for an agreement on holding UN-backed elections this year, according to three diplomats aware of the initiative reported by Reuters.…