First Independent Mena Newspaper
The minister of housing of the east-based government, Ali Koso, Sunday tendered his resignation as he accuses the administration-aligned army commander Khalifa Haftar of ethnical cleansing. The Beida-based government backed by the House of Representatives (HoR) and the Haftar-led Libyan National Army (LNA) is opposed to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) based in […]
One of the terrorists involved in the killing of US envoy to Libya in 2012 after an attack on the diplomatic compound, blew himself up after he was surrounded by forces, the spokesman for east-based Libyan National Army (LNA) told reporters Wednesday at a press conference in Benghazi. “The army managed to track down wanted […]
The head of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) Tuesday said Sharara oil field, the country’s largest with a production capacity of 340,000 barrels per day, will remain shut down until rebels evacuate the oil facility they have been holding since December. “The armed group attempting to hold NOC and Libya’s economic recovery to ransom […]
The Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Eastern Libya strongman Khalifa Haftar, has called the UN Special envoy to the North African country an enemy after the UN official bashed the army’s deadly actions in Southern Libya. A spokesman of the LNA, which is controlling the eastern part of the country, Wednesday said Ghassan Salame […]
Libya’s infighting and east west divisions are adding to the oil supply disruptions in the country after the shutdown of the country’s largest oil field. The Internationally recognized Libyan National Oil Corporation NOC warned last December that the closure of its biggest El Sharara oil field by tribesmen claiming higher wages has reduced the country’s […]
Libya’s warring factions agreed on Monday to stop hostilities after nearly a week of deadly clashes south of the capital Tripoli. Under the truce, brokered by Bani Walid social council, fighters from the Tripoli Protection Force and the Seventh Brigade agreed to return to their respective cities. Fighting between the armed groups erupted last Wednesday […]
Tripoli-based Public Prosecutor aligned with UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has demanded the arrest of Abdulhakim Belhaj, an Islamist politician and Ibrahim Jahdran’s forces controlled Libya’s oil crescent from post-2011 revolution until 2016, reports say. Both men are indicted for involvement in attacks, crimes and as well as armed groups in the North African […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has strongly condemned an armed attack in Al Jala Hospital in Libya’s second-largest city of Benghazi, which took place on Tuesday, warning that further assaults could shutter the key facility. Although nobody was reported killed, WHO said that there had been panic among patients and health workers inside the hospital, […]
A Chadian armed group has attacked a military camp of forces loyal to General Khalifa Haftar in southern Libya on Thursday. The attack took place near Traghen, some 900 kilometers south of Tripoli and about 400 kilometers north of the border with Chad, according to Reuters. Thirteen people were wounded in the attack. One of […]
The United Nations peace mission in Libya has “strongly” condemned a terrorist attack on the country’s foreign ministry in the capital Tripoli. According to media reports, the Islamic State terror group has claimed responsibility for the attack on Tuesday. At least three people are said to have been killed and more than ten injured. Three […]