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Tunisia and the UN once again called on Libyan political protagonists to urgently ink the UN-brokered National Dialogue Agreement in the face of growing instability and the giant strides of the Islamic State in the North African country. Meeting all factions for the first time, Head of the UNSMIL Martin Kobler reminded the protagonists of […]
Libyan rival factions Saturday signed in Tunis a declaration principle aiming at ending four years of conflict in the oil-rich North African country. The one-off meeting between the General National Congress negotiating committee head by the deputy President of the Tripoli body, Mohammed Awad Abdul-Sadiq and the House of Representatives of Tobruk led by the […]
The Islamic State group in Sirte announced Thursday the graduation ceremony of 85 children trained as suicide bomber or booby-trappers. The militant group in the Libyan coastal city invited through its radio station inhabitants of the city to attend the graduation ceremony of the “Caliphate Cubs” on Friday. Reports say children not aged more than […]
Italian Foreign Minister Wednesday announced that Rome would host an international conference to find solutions to the Libyan crisis and to draw plans to disrupt IS hold on the North African country. Paolo Gentiloni told Italian Parliament Wednesday Rome would host an international conference on the Italian former colony. According to Gentiloni, the conference would […]
A French court Monday ruled in favor of the Libyan side which claims ownership of late Gaddafi’s luxurious plane also claimed by a Kuwaiti group to which the former Libyan regime owes millions of euros. The Airbus A340 plane was seized by the Kuwaiti al-Kharafi conglomerate following a ruling of a Cairo court in 2013. […]
A meeting of Libyan mayors, municipal representatives and political figures Thursday in Gharian urged for unity and stressed that Libyan problems must be settled by Libyans, rejecting international interference in Libyan internal affairs. The gathering called for domestic solutions to Libyan problems and urged all Libyans to start a reconciliation dialogue. Members of the Tobruk-based […]
The Libyan international recognized government rejected the EU-funded Cloud News Agency saying the agency is a weapon of colonial domination. Omer Al-Ghawari, Head of Information and Culture Authority in the eastern government of Abdullah Al-Thanni criticized the newly established news agency calling the reporters and editors EU’s puppets and spies and traitors. He reportedly called […]
Libyan political protagonists are facing a hard choice or rather left without a choice after UNSMIL new head Martin Kobler said he would not reopen fresh talks on the final agreement reached by his predecessor Bernardino Leon and that the text was not amendable. Kobler spent the week urging Libyan political protagonists to endorse the […]
A new Libyan airline, Free Falcon Air, will start operations next year from Zintan and Labraq airport, as a purely commercial carrier. The new Libyan carrier to be headquartered in Beida already possesses a Boeing 737 and is negotiating the purchase of another one. It will run regular flight between the Labraqa and Zintan as […]
Deputy foreign minister of the Libyan internationally recognized government had been attacked and beaten up Tuesday night in his office, reports say. Deputy foreign minister Hassan Elsaghir was attacked in his office in Beida by unidentified men. Reports say some tribal armed men broke into the foreign ministry on Tuesday evening and attacked the building. […]