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The UN Special Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Wednesday expressed concerns over what it termed “brutal and outrageous summary executions” of prisoners in the city of Benghazi, at the scene of Tuesday double car bomb attacks. UNSMIL’s reaction came following the emergence of a series of photos showing the execution of at least nine prisoners in […]
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson visited Thursday Benghazi wherein he met Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, the Head of the Libyan National Army, as well as members of the local House of Representatives, challenging the government of Fayez Al-Serraj. This is the first visit by a UK government minister to Benghazi since 2011 and the first […]
The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an international arrest warrant for Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf Al-Warfalli, accused of war crimes for the execution of terrorist suspects in Benghazi, when the city was re-conquered by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s forces. ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber I indicted the Field Commander of the Special Forces Brigade (Al-Saiqa) for […]
The UN asked Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) to suspend Mahmoud Al-Warfali, a commander of Saiqa Special Forces, accused of having committed war crimes in liberated Benghazi after a video showed terrorist suspects being executed. Haftar early this month declared victory over extremists in Benghazi after three years of combat. The UN however sounded […]
Armed groups aligned with Libyan self-style Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar said Tuesday they took control of the town of Castelverde, 75 kilometres east of Tripoli after days of fighting with forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA). The armed groups identified as Rebels of Tripoli battalion in a facebook post announced control of the […]
Head of Libyan National Army (LNA) opposed to UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli Wednesday announced victory over militant groups and other fighters in the country’s second city of Benghazi, three year after launching fighting to liberate the cradle of the Libyan 2011 revolution. Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar announced the liberation of the […]
Ansar al-Sharia, a group that became famous in 2012 after the US held it responsible for killing its Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens together with three other Americans has disbanded. The group explained in a statement that it has been “weakened” by the latest round of fighting with the Libyan National Army led by Khalifa […]
The Libyan Nation Commission for Human Rights (LNCHR) has accused Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army (LNA) of violating the 1949 Geneva Convention after they exhumed, brutalized bodies, and displayed them in public. Among the dead bodies was that of Jamal Makhzoum, former leader of the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council, who was […]
Italy Thursday flew out of Benghazi injured Libyan forces aligned with Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar known as Russia’s man in the Libyan crisis. Twenty-two fighters of the Marshall were carried in C130-J hospital plane from Benina airport to the Celio Military hospital in Rome, Libya Herald reports. Haftar froces have been fighting Jihadists in and […]
Libya’s internationally recognized parliament, the House of Representatives (HoR), has condemned the attack on two Libyan oil terminals by Islamists, blaming the UN-backed Presidency Council (PC) of supporting the attackers. Forces known as Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB) opposed to the east-based renegade military Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar Friday assaulted al-Sidra and Ras Lanuf terminals, protected […]