Tag: GNA

Libya: UNSMIL Extended for One Year

September 15, 2017

The Security Council Thursday extended for one year the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), entrusted with supporting the North African ... Read More

Libya: UN Rebuked for Derailing Agreement for Consensus among Libyans

September 8, 2017

A former Libyan official has laid into the United Nations for sabotaging efforts by Libyans to get together and for imposing east-based army commander Khalifa ... Read More

Libya: Tension between BM, Serraj Escalates

September 5, 2017

Misrata-based armed forces known as Bunyan Marsous (BM) aligned with the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) have accused the Prime Minister Faiez Serraj of ... Read More

Libya: Boss of Migrants’ Illegal Trafficking, Oil Smuggling Arrested

August 26, 2017

Libyan forces aligned with the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) have announced the arrest of a man believed to be one of the barons ... Read More

Libya: Italian Navy Deployment Approved, LNA Ordered to Fire at Trespassing Boats

August 3, 2017

Shortly after the Italian parliament approved the deployment of the country’s naval forces to the Libyan shores to help combat the flow of illegal migration ... Read More

Libya: Serraj Promises Cash to HoR-aligned Tobruk Municipality

August 2, 2017

Libyan Prime Minister Faez Serraj has promised to attend financially to Tobruk municipality, which is housing the Libyan internationally recognized parliament, the House of Representatives ... Read More

Libya: Is Haftar Receiving Israeli Weaponry?

July 25, 2017

The Libyan National Army commander, aligned with east-based rival government, Khalifa Haftar has been reportedly receiving military aid from Israel with the secret support of ... Read More

Libya: PM Serraj Proposes Elections in 2018 to End Crisis

July 17, 2017

Prime Minister-designate Fayez al-Serraj of the UN-backed Government of National Accord has revealed plans for presidential and parliamentary elections in 2018 as he stated that ... Read More

Libya: Forces Loyal to Haftar Edge towards Tripoli

July 12, 2017

Armed groups aligned with Libyan self-style Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar said Tuesday they took control of the town of Castelverde, 75 kilometres east of Tripoli ... Read More

Libya: Clashes continue in Benghazi after liberation

July 10, 2017

Four days after Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar announced that the Libyan National Army (LNA) has liberated the city of Benghazi from terrorism, clashes continued till ... Read More