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Two years after Russian President Vladimir Putin came to blows with his then prime minister Dmitri Medvedev over a Russian abstention from a UN resolution which paved the way for the fall of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, a mysterious – but high quality – documentary appeared on the internet …

Khalifa Haftar, who is leading a coup against the legitimate Government of National Accord in Tripoli that is backed by the UN, has arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to meet with the Abu Dhabi top officials as well as Libyan House of Representatives Speaker Aquila Saleh and Abu …

A Libyan high ranking delegation, headed by Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha and Foreign Minister Mohammed Sayala, visited the United States on Wednesday.

Eastern Libyan authorities forced a civilian flight of the Libyan Airlines airliner to land in Benina Airport in Benghazi for security checks soon after it had taken off from Misurata city, which is controlled by their rivals in the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord on Thursday, Libyan Ministry of Transportation …

Social media activists circulated photos for three civilians’ bodies they said were murdered on the coastal road between Tripoli and Misrata after being shot by gunmen who sneaked Tuesday night into the area and started opening fire on several cars.

Libyan parties have rejected the trial of Saif al-Islam, son of late Muammar al-Gaddafi, at the International Criminal Court (ICC) after Libya’s representative at the court, Ahmed al-Jehani, agreed to bring him to The Hague.

Spokesman for the Emergency and Ambulance Service, Osama Ali, has confirmed that four members of Moftah El-Seid family have been injured after a shell hit their home in Ain Zara district, south Tripoli.

On 11 November 2019, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch submitted a joint third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in a case involving Libya’s abuses against migrants during operations at sea and upon return to the country in November 2017. 

The UN envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame has described the Security Council as “sterile” as it couldn’t find solutions to many crises, including the Libyan one after 14 formal meetings.

The Libyan Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord has ordered decreasing its members and all government ministers’ salaries by 40%.