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US President Donald Trump is likely to receive eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar at the White House, Libya Express reports citing unnamed sources. Haftar has launched since early April a military offensive on Tripoli, controlled by UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), in view of getting rid of terror groups, he claimed. The offensive […]
Paramount Group, South Africa’s leading military equipment company, is likely to probe Jordan after photos of South Africa-made armored Mbombe 6 emerged in the fighting for the control of Libyan capital Tripoli by east-based armed forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar. Haftar is backed by the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and France. Responding to press reports, […]
Forces loyal to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) have announced that they have downed a United Arab Emirates-made drone used by East-based forces led by Khalifa Haftar who has launched an offensive to seize Tripoli. Tripoli’s southern outskirt has been since early April the theater of military confrontation where GNA forces have been […]
Islamic countries leaders, meeting in Makkah Friday, for the 14th OIC Summit, urged Libyan parties to cease hostilities around Tripoli, to stop bloodshed amongst Libyan people, and appealed to them to return to the UN-sponsored political process. The leaders, in a statement over Libya, voiced grave concern over the military operations around Tripoli and urged […]
Eastern Libyan forces led by Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar Tuesday extradited one of Egypt’s most wanted terrorists to Egyptian authorities, a move welcomed President Fattah al-Sisi. Live television footage on the national TV showed Hesham Ashmawi being escorted from a military aircraft by heavily armed GIS forces, local media Egyptian Streets reports. Ashmawi, 41, a […]
Khalifar Haftar, commander of the east-based forces opposed to the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) has accused the UN envoy trying to fix the political crisis in the North African country of being “biased” in his mission. “Salame is making irresponsible statements,” Haftar told French newspaper Journal de Dimanche in an interview published […]
The water supply to the 2.5 million residents of Tripoli has been restored Tuesday, two days after they were cut off by gunmen, allowing the besieged capital to escape shortages that could have caused a humanitarian crisis. Unidentified armed men stormed Sunday a station of the Great Man-Made River Project, a pipeline network carrying water […]
he UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) unloaded Saturday a dozen of armored military vehicles, shipped from Turkey in what appears as Ankara’s support for the GNA counter-operation to keep at bay forces of east-based military commander Khalifa Haftar who seek to overtake the Libyan capital. Military media South Front, citing sources from Tripoli, reports […]
Since the launch by Haftar’s LNA forces of an offensive to take Tripoli from the UN-sponsored government (GNA) early April, trade has been heavily affected in Tunisian border towns with hospitals full of wounded Libyans. The intensifying battles around Tripoli are also putting a strain on Tunisia’s security apparatus which announced on May 3 the […]
The offensive on Tripoli waged by Haftar’s forces has lost momentum hitting a dead end as forces loyal to UN-backed government managed to thwart the attack. Meanwhile Haftar’s sources of funding are eroding as the conflict drags on. Haftar attached utmost importance to securing necessary funding for his LNA forces but still the Government of […]