The UN Security Council called on Friday for a ceasefire in Libya as the death toll from a three-month offensive on Tripoli reached 1,000, including scores killed in an air strike that... Read more »
Over 40 migrants were killed in an airstrike on Tuesday night on their detention centre in a Tripoli suburb. The airstrike was blamed on forces loyal to rogue Libyan general Khalifa Haftar,... Read more »
On April 4, Khalifa Haftar, the militia leader who controls eastern Libya, launched a large-scale offensive to capture the capital, Tripoli. The attack marked the collapse of negotiations to form an interim government between Haftar... Read more »
On Monday, some media reported that Turkish vessels carrying military facilities docked in Tripoli port of Libya. According to the Russian broadcaster RT, a ship named Amazon sailed on May 8 from... Read more »
The United Nations envoy for Libya has called for immediate action to cut off arms flows to the warring sides in Libya, warning that the ongoing battle for Tripoli was « just the... Read more »
The leader of the left-wing Algerian Workers’ Party, Louisa Hanoune, is being held in isolation at a military prison in the town of Bleida south of Algiers, a senior official in her... Read more »
The UN’s health agency, the World Health Organization, says 443 people have died and 2,110 have been wounded in violence in Libya’s capital since the head of the self-styled Libyan National Army,... Read more »
Trudy Rubin It has become the new “normal” for President Trump to undercut his secretaries of state and defense without warning. On a whim. With a tweet or a phone call. But... Read more »
Khalifa Haftar, the renegade Libyan general, took many world leaders and most experts by surprise when he attacked Tripoli on April 4. Now, nearly three weeks later and with his forces confronted... Read more »
fighting between forces loyal to rival Libyan governments rages on in Tripoli’s outskirts, the capital’s residents fear they are facing the grim prospect of a long, bloody war. “Life goes on, and... Read more »