General Khalifa Haftar, who was recently brought back by the disputed Libyan parliament in Tobruk to serve in the Libyan army, has announced that his forces are preparing to...
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News Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni did not rule out the possibility of sending troops to Libya as long as it was part of an UN-sponsored plan to help solve...
UN Security Council members expressed their "profound concern" over the deteriorating situation in Libya and its impact on regional peace and stability, warning of the possibility of imposing sanctions....
The US ambassador in Algeria, Joan Polachik, said on Wednesday that Washington supports Algeria's efforts to launch a dialogue between Libya's factions because the resolution to the crisis will...
Libya's interim government began the aerial bombardment of the Mitiga International Airport, in the capital Tripoli, on Monday. In a statement issued yesterday, the interim Libyan government, headed by...
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November 25, 2014 |
Dr Faisal Al-Qasim In order for us to be realistic, we must describe the Arab revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria as "takeaway" revolutions; they are like fast foods that...
A member within the Libyan House of Representatives revealed the governing body's decision to allow retired Generals Khalifa Haftar and Saqr Jeroshi to return to military service. According to...
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News Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal confirmed that the Ministry of Solidarity has sent shipments of food to the residents of south-western Libya. The residents are currently suffering from a...
Unidentified aircraft have targeted several military bases controlled by Fajr (Dawn) Libya forces in the west of the country, a military source and witnesses told Anadolu news agency. The...
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News Libyan journalist and political analyst, Ali Al-Kasih, has said that over 6,000 militants have recently arrived in Libya, adding that these militants contributed to the civil war and to...
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News The Libyan parliament based in Tobruk threatened on Wednesday to close the airspace controlled by the National Salvation Government in Tripoli, Anadolu news agency reported. In a statement, the...
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News Hundreds of Libyans protested in the capital Tripoli and other Libyan cities on Friday evening against the illegitimate parliament and in support of the ruling of the Supreme Court,...
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News The Libyan government refused to hand over Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague today. The Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations,...
The United Nation's support mission in Libya announced yesterday that it will evacuate the city of Cyrene in the eastern part of the country following a car explosion, according...

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There is no doubt that the Supreme Constitutional Court ruling to dissolve the Tobruk parliament cobbled together by Haftar and Sisi, and cancelling its associated government, as well as...
The Tunisian government is calling on Libyans residing in Tunisia not to engage in any political activity without first informing the authorities in advance, noting, at the same time,...
Omar Al-Hassi, the prime minister of the Libyan government in Tripoli, stressed that elections were necessary to put an end to the chaos that has been plaguing the country...
The Libyan parliament has reduced the size of the 2014 budget from 64 billion dinars ($48.2 billion) to 52 billion dinars ($40 billion) due to a decline in oil...
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News Mustapha Ben Jaafar, the president of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia, has said that foreign intervention in Libya would only deepen the crisis in that country and called upon...
The crisis in Libya can be resolved through dialogue and negotiations, the Turkish President's Special Envoy Amrullah Eichler said yesterday following a two-day trip to the war torn country....
The internationally recognised Libyan government, based in Tripoli, has called for civil disobedience in order to regain control of the country's capital, which is currently under the grip of...
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October 22, 2014 |
Amelia Smith Diana Matar is interested in capturing what can no longer be seen. "It can be ironic within the medium of photography because we rely so stubbornly on a subject,"...
The Tunisian Foreign Minister, Manji Hamidi, has said that the on-going crisis in Libya has huge repercussions for his country, including economic, political and security consequences, Anadolu news agency...
Libya only has one legitimate government and one legitimate parliament, not two, the Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Al-Dairi said. In an interview with London-based newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Al-Dairi called...
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News The Egyptian Revolutionary Council expressed its anger and condemnation of the military attack carried out against Libyans. The Council also stated that military intervention in Libyan affairs is a...
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October 17, 2014 |
Samira Shackle Ever since long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi was ousted from power in 2011, Libya has been mired in chaos. Various militias that fought to topple Gaddafi have continued to operate...

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As the conditions for Libyan activists are deteriorating, civil society fighters, refusing to be silenced, mobilise from abroad. One of them is Shahrazad Magrabi, whose initiative Libyan Women Forum...
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Libya The spokesperson of the office of the Egyptian coup leader and President Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi denied on Wednesday the news about Egyptian warplanes targeting Libyan Islamists in Benghazi, Anadolu news...
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News The UN High Commission for Refugee Affairs warned on Friday of a new wave of internal displacement because of increased fighting amongst militant groups in Libya. The current number...
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News Egyptian President and coup leader Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi said on Wednesday that his country supports what he described as "the legitimate" leadership in Libya and called for the establishment of...
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News There has been no government decision to impose entry fees on Tunisians wishing to enter Libya, a foreign ministry official said. In remarks to the Anadolu news agency yesterday,...
Libyan authorities have found dozens of illegal migrants, mostly Palestinians and Syrians, dead off Libya earlier their month after their boat sank due to technical problems, an international rights...