Italy, Egypt and Algeria have agreed on widespread help to the UN-led efforts to succeed in a Libyan reconciliation and to counter the rising terrorism menace within the conflict-torn Arab and north African nation.In a joint press convention with the Egyptian counterpart and Algerian Minister for Maghreb and African Affairs, …

Sudan yesterday summoned Libya’s ambassador to Khartoum to demand the “unconditional release” of the Sudanese consul in Libya Abdel-Halim Omar.

Following fast on the heels of Monday’s warning from Misrata Municipal Council that it could withdraw from the UN-brokered dialogue because of what it claimed was the “other side’s” lack of commitment to it, the GNC is now making the same threat. In Tripoli, Mohamed Emazab, one of the four …

The House of Representatives (HoR) has appointed 19 of its members to evaluate the interim political roadmap drawn up by delegates to the UN-brokered Dialogue process in Skhirat a fortnight ago. It has been instructed to submit its recommendations to the whole House next Monday for it to vote on.

Libya’s internationally recognised government has moved to divert revenues from the long-established state oil company and Central Bank to its own coffers — in an effort experts warn is “risky” and likely to fail.

Misrata Municipal Council has threatened to withdraw from the UN-brokered dialogue because it says “the other side” is not committed to the process. It claims it is undermining it by its military campaign in the west of the country.

With the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) wreaking havoc in the Levant, Syria reeling from a devastating civil war, and a political crisis in Libya devolving into an entrenched armed conflict, ultimately it was the Houthi takeover in Yemen that galvanized a pan-Arab coalition and military intervention. Led by Saudi …

Libyan state firm Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO) is producing 317,000 barrels per day (bpd), the highest level in the last two years, the company’s spokesman said on Monday.

According to Omani newspaper Al-Watan, the depot that contained the weapons that were inside them had allegedly been purchased by Iran, by means of weapons dealers in Sudan and Chad, and were supposed to be smuggled to Hamas through Egypt, by means of the smuggling tunnels between Sinai ands Gaza. 

UN Special Envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon is still trying to herd the scattered Libyan cats of all political shades around the table in Morocco. Leon hopes to negotiate a peace treaty of sorts, put an end to the fighting, and establish a unity government that can keep the country …