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Category: Libya
Libya: UN Calls for Humanitarian Truce, Peace Talks
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
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
US military command for Africa, AFRICOM, have temporally withdrawn US troops out of Libya amid deadly armed confrontation between militia forces aligned with UN-backed Government ...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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