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Italy has said it is ready to send peacekeepers to Libya after Prime Minister of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), Faiez Serraj, called on the UN to send troops to protect civilians trapped in the crossfire since April amid the ongoing military offensive against Tripoli by forces loyal to eastern renegade commander Khalifa […]
Attendees in the Sunday Berlin Conference vowed to end support to conflicting sides in the Libyan crisis and stick to the UN arms embargo imposed on the North African country, host Angela Merkel said. “We agreed that we want to respect that embargo on weapon and that it will be strictly respected, more than before,” […]
Tunisia has turned down the invitation to participate in the Berlin Conference held this Sunday, January 19, because the invitation was late and because Tunis has not been involved in the preparatory meetings for the conference. ,” the Foreign Affairs Department said in a statement Saturday while expressing its thanks and consideration for the invitation […]
King Mohammed VI received Saturday a phone call from French President Emmannuel Macron during which Morocco’s key role in brokering the Skhirate agreement between the Libyan warring factions was underlined. During the phone talk, which took place on the eve of Berlin talks on Libya, Morocco’s steady efforts to reach a settlement of the […]
Morocco has expressed its astonishment over its exclusion from the conference on the Libyan crisis, scheduled to be held in Berlin, Germany, Sunday Jan. 19. Morocco, which hosted the inter-Libyan negotiations that were crowned by the Skhirat Accords, signed on December 17, 2015, and considered so far for as the only basis for a […]
Greece has said it will block any peace deal on Libya proposed by the European Union (UE) as it complained about her exclusion from Berlin conference planned for coming Sunday. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that his government will stand in the way of the deal unless it scraps a maritime deal between Turkey and […]
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said his country will not refrain from “teaching a lesson” to Khalifa Haftar if his eastern Libyan forces continue attacks against the internationally recognized government in Tripoli. Turkey and Russia failed to convince Haftar on Monday to sign a binding truce to halt his nine-month campaign to try to […]
The meeting held Monday in Moscow in a bid to sign a permanent ceasefire agreement between the two Libyan warring parties, the Government of National accord of Fayez Serraj and Libya’s eastern strongman and commander of the Libyan National Army General Khalifa Haftar, ended without yielding any results. After seven hours of negotiations, Serraj signed […]
The heads of Libya’s two warring factions, the Prime Minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez al-Serraj, and the commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Khalifa Haftar, are both in Moscow this Monday to sign a binding ceasefire. Turkey and Russia, which back opposing sides in the conflict, are supporting the […]
The Tunisian Interior Ministry Wednesday said it has seized arms and cash en route to troubled neighboring Libya from Turkey. Khaled Hayoun, spokesman for the ministry told local media Shems FM that security forces have seized arms and that investigations revealed that the shipment was coming from Turkey and meant for Libya. The weapons and […]