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France Tuesday announced President Emmanuel Macron wants to meet with Khalifa Haftar whose eastern Libyan National Army has been fighting to control capital Tripoli, few days after UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) leader asked the French leader to press the rebel general to cease his offensive. Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive on Tripoli early […]
The military offensive launched by the Libyan National Army of field Marshal Khalifa Haftar on Tripoli threatens international peace and security and undermines Libya’s stability, warned on Tuesday the European Union. “The LNA military attack on Tripoli and the subsequent escalation in and around the capital constitutes a threat to international peace and security and […]
UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has suspended oil exploration and production licenses for around 40 foreign companies including French multinational Total. The decision confirmed by economy minister Ali Abdulaziz Issawi said the companies’ licenses expired. Total, aerospace company Thales and the telecoms company Alcatel are among firms to be affected by the move, which […]
An attack on an ambulance in Tripoli on Wednesday that has critically injured the head of emergency services in Libya’s war-torn capital, along with two paramedics, has been strongly condemned by UN humanitarians as an abhorrent attack. Health workers and civilians have not been spared in heavy clashes that erupted in early April between the […]
The leader of forces opposed to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) Sunday ordered the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA) to step up fighting during the month of Ramadan, which has started this Monday, in their drive to seize capital Tripoli. Khalifa Haftar on an audiotape released by LNA spokesman ordered the east-based forces […]
Mercenaries linked to Frontier Services Group, a security company based in Iraq and UAE, have been fighting on the side of military commander Khalifa Haftar whose forces have launched an offensive to seize the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Under a secret deal, Frontier Service Group, run by American Businessman Erik Prince, had recently flown private […]
Russian Foreign Minister Thursday told an international gathering that only a political statement would end the military crisis that has engulfed Libya early this month after eastern military commander Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive to take Tripoli. “We need to put an end to the ongoing internal conflict in Libya,” Sergei Lavrov said in his […]
Morocco reiterated, on Wednesday in Addis Ababa, its support for the Libyan people’s aspirations to build a democratic, inclusive, and united State and to preserve their country’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity. The pledge was renewed by Morocco’s representative to the African Union (AU), ambassador Mohammed Arrouchi, in an address at a meeting of the […]
Amnesty international has denounced the latest violent attack that targeted refugees and migrants at a detention center on the outskirts of Tripoli, calling for the protection of civilians and trial of those responsible for this horrible aggression and assault. Armed men raided the Qasr Ben Ghashir detention center, south of Tripoli on April 23 and […]
The Chairman of Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) that manages the North African country’s oil resources has refused to make comments during an international oil conference in Paris, in protest to France’s support of warlord Khalifa Haftar, who has been waging on war on the UN-backed unity government in a move to control capital Tripoli. […]