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Two cars exploded Thursday a military funeral in Eastern Libya killing six people including two soldiers and one police officer under the command of military rebel Khalifa Haftar, reports say. The car bombs exploded at the funeral of the former commander of Saiqa Force Khalifa Al-Mismari. The ceremony, the media reports, was attended by tens […]
Algeria’s foreign ministry Wednesday denied Prime Minister’s criticism of Khalifa Haftar whom he said is nothing “compared to the holiness and greatness of Libya as well as to its regional and international significance”. Prime Minister Noureddine Badawi during a meeting with UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) interior minister Fathi Pashagha was quoted for tirade […]
Seven Moroccans lost their lives in the attack on a migrants detention center in Libya which took place last week, Morocco’s foreign ministry said. Eight other Moroccans were injured and three others were missing after the attack which was blamed on forces loyal to renegade General Khalifa Haftar. Morocco’s consular services were in touch with […]
Six Moroccans were injured, including two seriously, in the airstrike that has hit lately a migrant detention center near the Libyan capital. “No death has been recorded among Moroccans” so far, said a statement issued Thursday by Morocco’s Consulate General in Tunis, noting that that injured Moroccans were transported to a hospital to receive the […]
Morocco expressed its deep concern following an attack on a migrants’ detention center in Libya that killed 44 people. The United Nations has called for an independent inquiry into the bombing of the detention center that left at least 44 dead and more than 130 severely injured, describing the attack as “a war crime and […]
A Monday drone airstrike has killed at least 36 migrants and wounded 80 others in capital Tripoli, GNA health ministry told reporters accusing forces loyal to east-based military commander Khalifa Haftar. The air strike landed on Tajoura migrant detention center controlled by a GNA loyal militia, east of capital Tripoli, spokesman for the ministry Fawzi […]
Forces loyal to east-based military commander Khalifa Haftar have released six Turkish sailors after Ankara threatened that Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) would become “targets if they did not release the six Turkish citizens.” The Turkish foreign ministry’s spokesman Hami Aksoy said the sailors decided to continue working and have gone aboard a ship owned […]
Turkey warned that forces loyal to renegade Genera Khalifa Haftar will become a “legitimate target’ if they do not immediately release six turks. “We expect our citizens to be immediately released,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Shortly after Turkey’s warning, the LNA said it targeted an armed Turkish drone at a Tripoli […]
Head of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) has finger-pointed foreign countries, which, he said, are targeting the national oil firm that has refused to take sides in the ongoing military offensive on Tripoli waged by east-based Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. “The country is experiencing dangerous levels of disinformation. These campaigns, many directed at NOC […]
A group of Libyan political parties, which attended a two-day conference in Cairo, has thrown support behind Khalifa Haftar, the east-based Field Marshall currently conducting a military offensive to take control of Tripoli. The gathering, called the Libyan National Parties conference, held in the Egyptian capital, June 17-18, released a multiple-point statement throwing weight behind […]