The United Nations on Tuesday voiced “deep concern” over growing tensions between rival Libyan forces, calling for “immediate” moves to calm the situation. The UN’s mission UNSMIL said it was “following with deep concern the ongoing mobilisation of forces and ...
Five Western nations urged Libyans on Friday not to drag the National Oil Corporation into political disputes that could threaten the country’s fragile peace. The statement came with the NOC’s chief and the interim oil minister in a standoff. “All ...
By Hamza Mekouar Libyans on Thursday mark 11 years since the revolt that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi, but the democracy many hoped for seems as elusive as ever, and many fear a return to conflict. The anniversary comes as the ...
Two Libyan army units used heavy artillery in an exchange of fire overnight centring on a barracks in a densely populated area of southeast Tripoli. An attack early Friday ordered by the military commander in the capital saw members of ...
Libyan authorities have shut water supplies to swathes of the country after gunmen demanding the release of a jailed Kadhafi-era official threatened to sabotage the water network. Supplies to western and southwestern Libya were interrupted overnight Saturday to Sunday, the ...
Seventy-eight prisoners who fought on the side of eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar in his year-long offensive against the capital Tripoli were released late Wednesday, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene. The detained fighters were released at the ...
Libyan authorities Saturday announced increased security measures in second city Benghazi and the arrest of two suspects in connection with the killing of a militia leader wanted by the International Criminal Court. Security is precarious in Benghazi with frequent tit-for-tat ...
By Rim Taher – Libya’s prime minister-designate Abdul Hamid Dbeibah on Thursday said he had submitted a “vision” for an interim government, as he seeks to lead the North African nation to elections in December. Dbeibah was selected early this ...
By Robin Millard with Rim Taher in Tripoli – Libyan delegates at UN-facilitated talks outside Geneva on Friday made the surprise choice of Abdul Hamid Dbeibah as the transitional unity prime minister to take the war-ravaged country through to elections ...
The United States on Thursday called for the immediate withdrawal of Russian and Turkish forces from Libya, after a deadline for them to leave was ignored. This appeal marked a firmer expression of US policy toward oil-rich Libya under the ...