The U.S. military said on Tuesday that Russia has deployed fighter aircraft to Libya to support Russian mercenaries fighting for eastern forces, adding to concerns of a new escalation in the conflict.
"Russian military aircraft are likely to provide (...)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday told an ally of Libya's eastern commander Khalifa Haftar that Moscow backed an immediate ceasefire and political talks that would culminate in united governing authorities.
Lavrov conveyed that (...)
Islamic State group said on Monday it was behind a blast in a small town in southern Libya on Saturday, the militant group's first attack in the country for at least a year.
The blast targeted a security point at the entrance to Taraghin, 780 km (...)
Libya's coast guard intercepted about 400 Europe-bound migrants off the country's Mediterranean coast over the past two days, and brought them to the capital of Tripoli from where they were taken to a detention center, the UN migration agency said (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump called for a "rapid de-escalation" of the Libyan conflict on a call with Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday, the White House said, after recent gains by forces backed by Turkey prompted threats of (...)
Despite repeated calls by the United Nations in the last two months, the guns have not fallen silent in Libya. On the contrary, warring factions are as determined as ever to score clear victories over their respective adversaries, regardless the (...)
The United Arab Emirates believes the only acceptable path forward in the Libyan crisis involves "an immediate, comprehensive ceasefire and a return to the political process", the UAE's minister of state for foreign affairs said on Tuesday.
"The (...)
Bombs hit a shelter for displaced people in Libya's capital Tripoli, killing at least seven people including a 5-year-old child from Bangladesh, health authorities said Sunday.
The shelling of the facility in the city's Furnaj district late Saturday (...)
Portions of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, sustained an intensive missile barrage from the Libyan National Army (LNA) last weekend. On Thursday evening, two missiles struck the park area between Al-Shatt Road and Zawyat Al-Dahmani, the district in (...)
Turkey's foreign ministry warned on Sunday that it would deem the forces of Libyan General Khalifa Haftar legitimate targets if their attacks on its interests and diplomatic missions in Libya continued.
Turkey backs Libya's (...)
Jet fuel tanks at Tripoli's Mitiga airport were targeted in an attack on Saturday that caused a large fire, Libya's National Oil Corp (NOC) said.
Mitiga is the last functioning airport in the Libyan capital, though civilian flights stopped in March (...)
The European Union has launched a delayed naval mission to enforce an arms embargo on Libya, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Thursday.
Operation IRINI, currently headquartered in Rome, aims to halt the flow of arms into Libya, (...)
Last week, the Libyan National Army's (LNA) Commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, “accepted a popular mandate” to rule Libya and declared an end to the Skhirat Agreement, a UN-brokered accord between Libyan factions signed in 2015. In a televised (...)
The United Arab Emirates called on Thursday on all Libyan parties to commit to the U.N.-supervised political process to end the war, while at the same time saluting the eastern Libya based-army led by general Khalifa Haftar.
Accused by critics of (...)
Libya's Tripoli-based government said on Thursday its forces would keep fighting after a unilateral ceasefire declaration by its eastern-based opponents in its civil war.
The Government of National Accord (GNA), said in a statement it did not trust (...)
Demonstrations are back in Lebanon with protesters blocking highways, clashing with police and ignoring curfews brought in to stop the coronavirus pandemic weeks after the three-month revolutionary movement faded from the streets.
A collapse in the (...)
Hundreds of protesters in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli set fire Tuesday to two banks and hurled stones at soldiers who responded with tear gas and batons in renewed clashes triggered by an economic crisis spiraling out of control amid a (...)
Egypt supports a political solution in Libya despite the recent tensions in the country, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
On Monday, Libyan National Army commander Khalifa Haftar said he was accepting a "popular mandate" to rule the country, (...)
Libya's National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar said on Monday his Libyan National Army (LNA) was accepting a "popular mandate" to rule the country, apparently brushing aside the civilian authorities that nominally govern eastern Libya.
Haftar, (...)
On 26 March, Fayez Al-Sarraj, prime minister of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), launched operation “Peace Storm” against the Libyan National Army (LNA) under the command of Benghazi-based Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. In two (...)
Dozens of protesters poured back onto the streets of Beirut in their cars on Tuesday, furious at rising poverty and hardship, as parliament convened for the first time during Lebanon's coronavirus lockdown.
People flocked to the streets in other (...)
Six months before the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Lebanon had been struggling amid a financial meltdown. The country's economic crisis had reached a peak with the slowing of flows of money from abroad, street protests against the (...)
The coronavirus pandemic has forced militaries and militias to adapt to an invisible enemy, even as traditional conflicts grind on.
Armies have had to enforce social distancing rules among troops while helping with national outbreak containment and (...)
The authorities running eastern Libya on Tuesday confirmed a first case of the coronavirus despite efforts to close borders and impose a curfew to limit social interactions.
Libya has confirmed a total of 20 cases of the new coronavirus, with the (...)
Last Saturday marked the first anniversary of the war for Tripoli. On 4 April 2019, the eastern based Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar launched a military operation to capture the Libyan capital from the (...)
