First Independent Mena Newspaper
A car bombing attack rocked the Libyan capital Tripoli Monday wounding one person and damaging the Italian gas company giant Eni office. Witnesses of the incident told reporters two cars exploded no far from the offices of Mellitah Oil and Gas, a joint corporation belonging to the Italian giant Eni and the Libyan government. The […]
The Libyan Dinar has plummeted further over the week-end against foreign currencies on the black market now appearing as the only available FOREX market for most Libyans desiring to buy foreign currency owing to lack of central regulatory body. The Libyan Dinar in Tripoli is trading much lower as the one Libyan Dinar is trading […]
UNMIL Chief Envoy for Libya Bernardino Leon invited the Libyan political protagonists to continue the talks in the Swiss city of Geneva where the General National Congress team will be present. The Libyan Dialogue process will get back to Geneva after Leon pushed further to September 20 the new deadline for Libyans to clinch a […]
The last stages of the Libyan peace talks resumed Thursday in the Moroccan city of Skhirat without the General National Congress which indicated that it would later join the talks. Pressed by the UNMIL Chief Bernardino Leon, Libyan political stakeholders resumed dialogue in Morocco in the bid to fine-tune the last points to lead to […]
Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Al-Dayri has urged the international community to wake up and help Libya overcome the unprecedented progress made by the Islamic State terrorist group which is scoring “giant wins” in Libya. The Foreign Minister who was on a visit to Paris Tuesday to seek France’s support to lift the UN arms embargo […]
As clashes of government troops in Libya against the Islamic State (IS) militants continue, a video has been released by the extremist group calling for more militants to join them in Libya. Last week, the Tobruk based-government requested brother Arab countries to help it fight the group but the rival government in Tripoli warned that […]
After Tobruk-based government’s last week call for the intervention of Arab states to help it fight the militants of the Islamic State (IS) in Libya, the Arab League held an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday and acknowledged that “the situation has become more pressing in the difficult circumstances to speed up putting together an Arab strategy” […]
On the heels of the barbaric acts committed by ISIS in Sirte over the weekend, Italian foreign minister called on the international community to take quick actions to ensure that Libya does not become “another Somalia” reference to a “failed state.” “We will find ourselves with another Somalia two steps from our coasts,” said the […]
The international community voiced consternation Sunday over the beheading of 12 people by ISIS in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte and France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the U.S. and the U.K. condemned the terrorist group’s acts as “barbaric” in a joint statement. following the beheading of 12 local militiamen fighting ISIL in the city of […]
The Libyan government in Tobruk has called on the Arab States to help it combat the militants of the Islamic State in the coastal town of Sirte. The town has been under the influence of the Tripoli-based government backed by the coalition of Islamist forces before they were forced out of the city at the […]