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Libya was hit again this Tuesday by another ISIS terror attack, which targeted the foreign ministry in Tripoli. At least three people were killed and over ten wounded by suicide bombers, according to local security officials. Witnesses said attackers stormed the building and started shooting as heavy gunfire was heard. Explosions were heard and heavy […]
Ankara Saturday vowed to launch a probe into the smuggling of a shipment of arms to Libya, which is under UN arm embargo. The Libyan authorities based in Tripoli reportedly had seized last week, two containers of weapons and munitions disguised as construction material in the Western port of Khoms. The shipment was coming from […]
Migrants and refugees are being subjected to “unimaginable horrors” from the moment they enter Libya, throughout their stay in the country and – if they make it that far – during their attempts to cross the Mediterranean. The bleak picture of “this hidden human calamity” was depicted in a report released on Thursday, by the […]
The US State Department Tuesday called on the armed men that occupied Libya’s Sharara oil field in the desert, south of the country, to hand over the oil facility to the National Oil Corporation (NOC), which has declared force majeure. “The United States continues to monitor the situation at the Sharara oil field and echoes […]
The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has confirmed that eleven al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) terrorists were killed in “a precision airstrike”, conducted near Al Uwaynat, in southern Libya, last Thursday. AFRICOM said three vehicles were destroyed. “In coordination with the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), U.S. Africa Command conducted a precision airstrike near […]
Libya’s oilfield sub-station Sharara was attacked by a group of gunmen, said on Thursday the National Oil Corporation (NOC), noting that one was killed in the attack. NOC also called for the support of local and national stakeholders to secure oil sector facilities and staff, underlining the need for a unified national security apparatus. As […]
Morocco remains attached to a political, consensual and durable solution in Libya, a solution that would enable the North African country to recover its stability, within the framework of its indivisible unity, irrefutable sovereignty and full territorial integrity. The statement was made by Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita Tuesday in Palermo, during the international conference, […]
The UN-brokered agreement inked by Libya’s warring factions in the Moroccan coastal town of Skhirat remains the only viable basis for achieving a long-term solution to the Libyan conflict, said on Tuesday Sergei Prikhodko, 1st Deputy Chief of the Russian Government Staff. “All parties in Libya must seek compromises based on the Skhirat accord which […]
Libya remains in turmoil, battered by infighting between heavily armed militias and a political crisis that has divided the country. The initial euphoria is a distant memory as little have changed since the fall of Moammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship. A 2015 UN-backed deal to set up the unity government in Tripoli was meant to end the […]
UN special envoy to Libya Ghassan Salamé held talks Monday in Rabat with Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, focused on the Libya crisis. At a joint press briefing following the meeting, Bourita renewed Morocco’s support to an inter-Libyan solution under the aegis of the UN to achieve a final settlement of the crisis in the North […]