Libya

Libya's Tripoli-based government has held talks with Ukraine to discuss the possibility of military cooperation between the two sides, particularly on safeguarding maritime and air borders, Anadolu News Agency...

The UN special envoy to Libya said on Monday that stability and institutional legitimacy in the North African country will not come through elections alone. "We in the United...

In December 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi grew so frustrated with inequality and corruption in the Tunisian government that he set himself on fire in the town of Sidi Bouzid, 100...

The Libyan Oil and Gas Minister in the internationally-recognised government, Mohamed Oun has criticised the agreement signed between the National Oil Corporation (NOC) and Italian energy company Eni saying...

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank from Sunday to Tuesday to discuss heightened tensions between Israelis and Palestinians as well...

The envoy of the UN Secretary-General in Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, has announced that he is visiting Algeria as part of a tour of Libya's neighbours to seek support for...

The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) arrived unannounced in Tripoli on 12 January for a brief visit that lasted just a few hours. In the first...

Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) will sign offshore gas exploration and production deals with Italy's Eni, Reuters reports. According to the report, the deal would require $8 billion to...

The UN Development Programme has signed an agreement to provide technical and advisory support with Spain for the stalled electoral process in Libya. The agreement was signed in the...

Social media in Libya is abuzz following the news that a Tripoli court has suspended the implementation of the Libya-Turkiye hydrocarbon exploration deal that was signed last October between...

The Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William J Burns, has demanded that the commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Khalifa Haftar, should cooperate with the...

Migrants made nearly 330,000 attempts to enter the European Union (EU) without a permit last year – the highest number since 2016, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency...

Sending Harry, a Prince of the Realm, to help bring democracy to Afghanistan was always a crass idea. The UK King's son owes everything in his life to hereditary privilege and not...

Libya's Government of National Unity (GNU) told Turkiye "not to take seriously" a court ruling that suspended an energy exploration deal that the Tripoli government signed with Ankara last...

When his name was circulating last summer as a candidate for the position of United Nations envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily was almost unknown except within the halls of...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said that 1,067 migrants were rescued and returned to Libya in the past week, Reuters report. According to the report, in the period...

Libyan court suspends oil and gas exploration deal with Turkiye

Libyan leaders, on Thursday, held a meeting with the Egyptian Parliament Speaker in Cairo and confirmed that a new road map for Libya will be announced soon, Anadolu News...

The son of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi has called for opening the way for everyone to run in the country's presidential elections. Saif Gaddafi's electoral campaign team...

As the year of 2022 comes to an end, the usual spate of predictions for the incoming year are espoused by many. That includes, it seems, Russia's Security Council...

2022 is coming to an end, however the events and conflicts that took place during this year are unresolved, the most important of which is the Russian-Ukrainian war that...

Greece plans to extend its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles to the south and west of the island of Crete in March, local media reported on Sunday. The...

UN envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, has called on Libyan leaders to put an end for the transitional period and to set the situation for holding elections, Anadolu reports....

The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced yesterday the resumption of the implementation of an agreement signed in 2008 with the Italian energy company ENI to compensate for an...

Libyan Abu Agila Muhammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi will appear for the second time before a federal court in Washington DC next Tuesday where he will be told formally of...

The head of Libya's National Unity Government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, welcomed on Tuesday evening the US decision not to reopen the agreement made in 2008 with Tripoli, according to...

Amnesty International has accused an armed group linked to General Khalifa Haftar in the east of Libya of committing "war crimes and other crimes under international law" against thousands...

Libyan authorities exhumed two bodies from a new mass grave south of the capital Tripoli on Monday, reports Anadolu Agency. In a statement, the General Authority for Research and...

The Libyan Attorney General, Al-Siddiq Al-Sour, said yesterday that he had opened an investigation after a complaint about the extradition of Abu Ageila Masoud to the United States for...

On 12 December, Libyan citizen Abu Agila Muhammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, 74, appeared in a federal court in Washington D.C., accused of helping blow up Pan Am Flight 103...

Human Rights Watch has said that the EU's border agency Frontex is facilitating the forced return of sea migrants to Libya rather than their rescue by NGOs or other...

Khalifa Haftar has been on a tour over a large part of Libya and met with his supporters and others who, although not in full agreement with him, felt...