First Independent Mena Newspaper
A meeting of Libyan mayors, municipal representatives and political figures Thursday in Gharian urged for unity and stressed that Libyan problems must be settled by Libyans, rejecting international interference in Libyan internal affairs. The gathering called for domestic solutions to Libyan problems and urged all Libyans to start a reconciliation dialogue. Members of the Tobruk-based […]
Tripoli Attorney General’s office announced Wednesday that an Emirati has been nabbed for spying for the United Arab Emirates in the aftermath of the Leon-gate which revealed that former UN mediator collided with the Emiratis against the Tripoli-based Libyan administration in the Libyan peace Dialogue Al-Siddiq Al-Sour, head of the Investigations Bureau at the Office […]
The Serbian Foreign Ministry Sunday indicated that two staff of its embassy in Libya have been kidnapped west of the coastal city of Sabratha. The two abductees have been identified as ladjana Stankovic and Jovica Stepic respectively communication officer and driver of the embassy in Tripoli. A separate report indicated the Serbian ambassador Oliver Potezica […]
Armed men belonging to Revolutionaries of Tripoli, a militia group reportedly linked to the Interior Ministry of the Tripoli government, has kidnapped a member of this government, namely Mohamad al-Gaddar in charge of Planning. The security and defence commission of the General National Congress (GNC) strongly condemned the kidnapping on Tuesday and asked for the […]
Unidentified warplanes carried air strikes on IS’s positions in the Libyan city of Sirte Thursday shortly after mid-night, witnesses said. The air-strikes the second this month targeted IS fighters’ positions in former ruler Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown. It is still unclear who was behind the military raid as neither Libya National Army (LNA,) its affiliated militias, […]
German diplomat and former head of UN’s largest peace keeping mission in DR Congo Martin Kobler is set to replace Spanish diplomat Bernardino Leon as head of the UNSMIL struggling to clinch an accord between rival Libyans, UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon announced in a letter addressed Wednesday to the UN Security Council. After heading UN’s […]
Libya National Army (LNA) has claimed responsibility for the downing of a helicopter belonging to the Tripoli government in which 15 people, including high ranking military officers of the rival army, have been reported dead. The helicopter was gunned down by the Libyan internationally recognised armed forces as it was flying over Maya, west of […]
Dissidents from rival parties in the Libyan crisis Thursday called for the endorsement of the UN-suggested Government of National Accord and Peace deal days after their main bodies rejected the UN plan. A group of 21 dissident lawmakers of the Libyan internationally recognised Parliament; the House of Representatives (HoR,) issued a statement on Thursday calling […]
After rejecting the UN-proposed peace deal, the Libyan Internationally recognized House of Representatives (HoR) has embarked on a diplomatic seduction to win support for its stance. President of HoR, Ageela Saleh, was in Cairo on Tuesday in an attempt to seek Cairo’s support after lawmakers in the Libyan Parliament largely rejected the UN-proposed peace deal. […]
Enquiries into the 1988 Lockerbie bombing resurfaced with a statement from the Scottish Crown Office highlighting their agreement with the U.S Attorney General that “there is a proper basis” in the laws of both countries entitling their investigators “to treat two Libyans as suspects in the continuing investigation into the bombing of flight Pan Am […]