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After the capture and killing of Colonel Muamar Gadhafi, Libya was poised to head for a transition towards democracy. However, the past two weeks have been the most intense fighting the country has witnessed since the end of the war. Governments which once backed the rebels against the regime are now evacuating their diplomats and […]
An aide to the former Libyan Prime Minster Ali Zeidan has revealed that the country could be gearing up for a major long battle between Islamists and the militia headed by Khalifa Haftar. Libyans who were sent by the Islamists to fight in Syria and Iraq are now returning to fight against the men of […]
A former Libyan General, during the Gadhafi regime, has accused Qatar of wanting to weaken the state. General Khalifa Haftar’s allegations came at time when he claims to control more than 75% of Benghazi. The General is leading a militia that has vowed to uproot Islamists in the North African country. The government in Tripoli […]
Reports concerning Libya have claimed that a “veteran associate of Osama bin Laden” for more than a decade has taken over a secret U.S military training base in Libya. Tripoli and Washington have not commented on the issue even though the training camp is located only 27kilometers away from the Libyan capital. The base used […]
The trial with Gaddafi’s officials, which has been eagerly expected by Libyans for three years, opens in Tripoli today (April 14). The trial includes also two sons of Muammar Gaddafi and about three dozens of former officials, all of whom are going to court over a long list of alleged war crimes committed during the […]
New hopes of reaching an agreement with the rebels overseeing the eastern part of Libya have emerged after Ibrahim Jathran, a rebel group leader, revealed that major progress has been made in negotiations with the authorities in Tripoli. The agreement could be finalized within the next following days if “all national thinking” and “all honorable” […]
Spokesman Omar Hmeidan of the General National Congress has said that Libya will be taking a 2,55 billion Libyan dinar emergency loan to finance the functioning of the government after lack of income. Libya’s main source of income is oil and gas but the rebels have laid siege on several oil ports and fields thereby […]
A car bomb attack at the Libyan army academy killed at least eight people and wounded more than twelve in the Libyan city of Benghazi in the east of the country on Monday (March 17). Insecurity and instability in Benghazi is a side-effect of the efforts of the weak ruling government to handle armed groups, […]
The ousting of Libya’s prime minister, Ali Zeidan, who fled to Europe earlier this week, has set off fighting between eastern and western regions that threatens to divide the country. Rebels in the east of the country demand a larger share of the income generated from Africa’s largest oil reserves. The conflict-torn country’s former PM, […]
Libya’s navy and pro-government militias have sent ships to an anchorage held by armed demonstrators to prevent a North Korean tanker from leaving with oil that it had bought without a permission of the Libyan government. The tanker docked at Es Sider on Saturday, one of Libya’s three harbors seized by rebels since last August […]