Category: Libya

Libya: UN Calls for Humanitarian Truce, Peace Talks

April 9, 2019

The UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has urged all parties to observe humanitarian truce in the suburbs of Tripoli to evacuate civilians and those wounded ... Read More

Libya: US urges Haftar to halt Tripoli takeover attempt

April 9, 2019

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called on Libyan east-based rogue military general Khalifa Haftar to stop his offensive to control capital Tripoli. ... Read More

Libya: US pulls out troops as fighting rages between GNA forces & rival LNA

April 8, 2019

US military command for Africa, AFRICOM, have temporally withdrawn US troops out of Libya amid deadly armed confrontation between militia forces aligned with UN-backed Government ... Read More

Libya: Western Powers, UAE Urge All Parties to Deescalate Tensions

April 5, 2019

 The governments of France, Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom as well as the United Arab Emirates have expressed deep concern over fighting in ... Read More

Libya: Serraj orders military mobilization; Haftar forces’ advance westward

April 4, 2019

The Libyan Presidential Council (PC) led by designated Prime Minister Faiez Serraj has ordered the mobilization of all its aligned forces to block the advance ... Read More

Trump nominates a new ambassador to Libya

April 3, 2019

US President Donald Trump has picked former ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan, Richard Norland, as the new US envoy to Libya. Richard Norland, trained at ... Read More

Libya: GNA hands over to Rome Italian arms smuggler

April 2, 2019

The UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), headquartered in Tripoli, has surrendered to Italian authorities a famous Italian arms smuggler wanted in the EU member ... Read More

Libya: Serraj rejects power-sharing, militarization, exclusion as solution to political crisis

April 1, 2019

Libya’s internationally recognized leader Sunday opposed solutions to the political crisis that will propose power sharing, militarization as well as exclusion, in reference to the ... Read More

Libya: Maltese armed forces escort migrant-held Turkish tanker to Maltese port

March 29, 2019

Maltese armed forces have managed to usher a Turkish tanker hijacked by migrants who left Libyan coasts to the port of the city of Senglea. ... Read More

Libya: Italy donates well-equipped ambulances to several cities

March 26, 2019

Italy has supplied several cities and towns in Libya with highly equipped ambulances as it seeks to play a key role in the country’s fix. ... Read More