Libya is in a sorry state. Fighting continues at the extremist-controlled international airport in Tripoli, which the Libyan air force attacked last week. City centers are still embroiled in conflict, and earlier this month, the country’s Supreme Court dissolved the country’s internationally recognized parliament. Now, two rival prime ministers are …

Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—Tunisia’s defense ministry has denied reports of receiving official requests to cooperate with the US in striking Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) positions in neighboring Libya.

Visiting foreign minister says foreign military intervention counterproductive

Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said Monday that he provisionally agrees to enter into a Sudan-sponsored dialogue with opposing powers.

25 November 2014 –Against the backdrop of the dangerous escalation in military operations in Libya and on-going UN mediation efforts to contain the situation, on 25 November SRSG Leon spoke by phone to Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni, Head of Libya’s interim government. The two discussed possible options for ending armed …

The Libyan government still owes Britain more than £14 million for an aborted military training programme that had to be cancelled when militiamen ran riot in Cambridgeshire.

Excerpts from an interview of Egyptian Abdel Fattah El Sisi with France 24

(Beirut) – A Libyan criminal court’s imposition of a five-year prison term on Al-Ummah newspaper editor Amara al-Khatabi for allegedly defaming public officials is a serious blow to free speech that should not be allowed to stand.

It’s an unanswerable question, but when the disease was Gaddafi’s brutal tyranny in Libya, when the cure was a revolution actively supported by international air strikes and when the outcome is now a failed state offering a new launch-pad for Islamist extremists, it’s a question which has – at least …

The UN Security Council designated two branches of Ansar al-Sharia as terrorists with fighting raging in both east and west Libya