Libya's acting Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thani said on Thursday that the government has reached a deal with a rebel leader controlling oil ports to hand over the last two...
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News The Libyan government must announce its position regarding renegade General Khalifa Haftar's Operation Dignity, the Leader of the country's Justice and Development Party said yesterday. Mohamed Sowan, leader of...
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News The two abducted Tunisian diplomats in Libya this morning arrived in Laaouina military airport in Tunis after being released, Anadolu news agency reported. The Tunisian Foreign Ministry announced, in...
Hundreds of Turkish labourers who work on the Gulf Steam Station Project for energy production in the city of Sirte, central Libya, have been evacuated to Turkey after receiving...
The meeting between Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi was intended to prop-up rebel Libyan General Khalifa Haftar, it has been claimed by commentators....
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June 26, 2014 |
Samira Shackle On 21 and 22 June, voting took place in Libya's general election. The poll to elect a new national parliament went ahead despite the fact that much of the...
Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi's foreign outreach started in Algeria because it is "his only gate into Africa", an Algerian expert said. According to Algerian political scientist Tawfik Boukaida, Egypt seeks...
Libyan voters head to the polls today to elect a new parliament in elections that officials hope will end the ongoing chaos gripping the country since the overthrow of...
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News The Turkish Embassy in Tripoli and airport officials said yesterday that Ankara is working on the evacuation of hundreds of its nationals from Libya after retired general Khalifa Haftar,...

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June 21, 2014 Mohammed Issam Laroussi
After Muammar Gaddafi's regime ended in 2011, Libya witnessed a dramatic spiral towards political instability. On one hand, the West was promoting democracy and the Libyan people's choice and...
Former Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan defied the Libyan Public Prosecutor yesterday and returned to his home city Al-Bayda, in the east of the country, the Anadolu news agency...
Renegade Libyan General Khalifa Haftar said that he is planning, along with branches of the military forces and tribesmen in the Western part of the country, to "liberate Tripoli...
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News Aircrafts belonging to the retired Libyan general, Khalifa Haftar, bombed the Tika district west of Benghazi on Monday. Meanwhile, Libyan judiciary is reviewing the appeal filed by the fugitive...
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News Forces affiliated to renegade Libyan general Khalifa Haftar on Sunday attacked with heavy weapons areas controlled by the Islamist Ansar Al-Sharia militia in the eastern city of Benghazi. Haftar's...
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News One of the most important tribes in eastern Libya where renegade Khalifa Haftar is based has asked him to leave its territory, tribal sources said. The request came following...
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News About 14,000 Libyans and refuges, most of them from Middle Eastern countries, now live in overcrowded prisons in Libya. A UN statement on Friday said the detainees are often...

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June 7, 2014 |
Senussi Bsaikri The failure of General Khalifa Haftar's forces to enter Benghazi and the reduction in casualty statistics have pushed him to use air and artillery power to weaken his enemies....

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What we have been witnessing for the past 10 months is the alternative scenario that could have occurred in 1954 when the rebels besieged the Abdeen Palace to kill...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is suspending its operations in Libya as they investigate the killing of one of their employees, a spokesman for the organisation...
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June 6, 2014 Hisham Al-Shalwi
The counter-revolution in Libya was born with the revolutionary desire to progress from violence and injustice to peace and the restoration of the people's rights. This happened in Egypt...
Libyan renegade general Khalifa Haftar, who survived an assignation attempt in which three of his guards were killed, vowed to direct "a strong response" at those he called "terrorists"...
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News Reporters Without Borders called upon the Libyan authorities to conduct an investigation into the killing of journalist Naseeb Miloud Karfana based in the southern city of Sabha in the...
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News Below is a translated excerpt from the video: "This won't do for the future. We are now talking about the future. We have problems in Libya and we will...
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This is Dr Mabrouka al-Werfalli's timely offering for readers to gain a better understanding of Libya's complex political, social and economic milieu in the wake of the 2011 revolution....
In the second part of his interview with the Egyptian newspaper, Al Masry Al Youm, the leader of Libya's failed coup General Khalifa Haftar said he would welcome Egyptian...
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News The interim Libyan government, led by Abdullah Al-Thunni, said in a statement on Saturday that "the Libyan people represent the only legitimacy in the country, and only addresses those...
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News Former leader of the Libyan ground forces and current renegade General Khalifa Haftar said that he had never met Egyptian coup leader Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi, but he is to follow...
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News Newly appointed Libyan Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteg held his first parliamentary meeting with all the members of his government on Thursday. The prime minister's official page reported that Maiteg...
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News Foreign ministers of countries neighbouring Libya yesterday expressed "grave concern" about the developments in the security situation in the country. In a statement issued following the meeting of the...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is deeply concerned by the recent developments in Libya, in particular "the growing military mobilisation in and around the capital Tripoli", according to a...
The head of the militants controlling oil ports in eastern Libya, Ibrahim Jathran, yesterday said he does not recognise the new government headed by Ahmed Meitik, pointing out that...
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News Libya's newly appointed Prime Minister Ahmed Meitik said that his government will focus on fighting militants, securing the borders and strengthening the army with help from the international community...
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