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Mediterranean interior ministers have agreed to enhance joint actions to combat illegal migration, migrants’ smuggling and human trafficking networks, a growing lucrative business threatening peace and stability in the region. At the end of a meeting held lately in Tunis, the European and African Interior Ministers stressed the importance of addressing the roots of illegal […]
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 the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which backs him against the UN-sponsored Government of National Accord (GNA), reports say. London-based The New Arab, citing a source close to the Field Marshal […]
Libyan authorities have rescued in two separate operations on Monday at least 278 migrants as they tried to reach Europe. In one operation, 150 African migrants including two women and four children, were saved by Libyan coastguards after their inflatable boat engine broke down and started to sink. The migrants were brought ashore to a […]
France has confirmed that the Prime Minister-designate Fayez Serraj of the UN-backed Government of National Accord will be meeting, in Paris on Tuesday, with Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar of the Libyan National Army, loyal to the Tobruk-based House of Representative. An official statement highlighted that the initiative is geared towards facilitating “a political agreement” between […]
The UN asked Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) to suspend Mahmoud Al-Warfali, a commander of Saiqa Special Forces, accused of having committed war crimes in liberated Benghazi after a video showed terrorist suspects being executed. Haftar early this month declared victory over extremists in Benghazi after three years of combat. The UN however sounded […]
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 “the time has come for unity and salvaging our nation.” In a televised speech broadcast over the weekend, Serraj said he was presenting his “vision and proposals for the next […]
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 after days of fighting with forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA). The armed groups identified as Rebels of Tripoli battalion in a facebook post announced control of the […]
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 Sunday in the Sidi Akribesh neighborhood of the Sabri district with at least 20 soldiers killed by “terrorists” according to Colonel Miloud Zwei, LNA spokesman. Army sources claimed on Sunday […]
Would-be migrants are increasingly avoiding passing through conflict-wracked Libya on their treacherous sea journey to Europe in favor of the more peaceful and closer western Mediterranean route between Morocco and Spain. The UN Refugee Agency has warned Spain to prepare for an upcoming surge in migrant arrivals as the number of mostly sub-Saharans who made […]
Head of Libyan National Army (LNA) opposed to UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli Wednesday announced victory over militant groups and other fighters in the country’s second city of Benghazi, three year after launching fighting to liberate the cradle of the Libyan 2011 revolution. Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar announced the liberation of the […]